Re: Gigabit NIC question.

From: Warren Young (tangent@cyberport.com)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 12:11:46 EST


"Christopher E. Brown" wrote:
>
> Right about the network io though, it will easily max a single
> 100Mbit interface, but won't go past 180Mbit total (box has 2 100Mbit
> FD interfaces).

Am I missing something? 180 Mbit/s is about all you can expect out of
two 100 Mbit/s NICs. No one actually gets 100 Mbit/s. 90 Mbit/s is
closer to reality, and then only with Ethernet switches and high-quality
cabling.

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