Re: The ultimate TOE design

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 16:52:26 EST


On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:35:31PM -0500, Wes Felter wrote:
> 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.)

It was a rhetoric question.

No, you don't.

Jeff



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