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| Subject: | Re: The ultimate TOE design |
| From: | Wes Felter <wesley@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:35:31 -0500 |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:03:57PM -0500, Wes Felter wrote:To do 10 Gbps Ethernet with Jeff's approach, wouldn't you need a 5-10 GHz processor on the card? Sounds expensive.Do you need a 5-10 Ghz Intel server to handle 10 Gbps ethernet? Yes. (Or a 4-way ~2GHz server.)When the fastest general-purpose processors cannot handle the fastest Ethernet links, putting such a processor on a NIC won't help much. I think this is why people are attracted to TOE ASICs, even if that isn't the right solution. -- Wes Felter - wesley@xxxxxxxxxx - http://felter.org/wesley/ |
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