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Re: IPv6 adoption



On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 12:21:18PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > > Linux has routing capabilities, but it won't compare to a cisco if you try
> > > to feed it 8 gigabit ethernet lines :>
> > 
> > Hmmm...  I'd like to come up with benchmarks for SMP Linux/Alpha or even
> > PIII on PC120 (?) for top throughput... or, has someone already done
> > this?
> 
> 64bit PCI tops out at some 2.3GBit so it isn't even feasable to do on a
> PC.

 What about AGP?  A server needs IO bandwidth more than video bandwidth, so
why aren't there AGP ethernet cards?  4X AGP is 4*66*64 Mbit/s = 16896 Mb/s,
right?

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