Re: Tuning Gigabit

From: Gregory Sutter (gsutter_at_zer0.org)
Date: 06/29/03

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    Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 17:31:35 -0700
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>

    On 2003-06-28 19:35 -0400, David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> wrote:
    >
    > Unfortunately you may have a motherboard that maxes at 300 megabit.
    > Our recent testing of Gigabit NICs found more than 75% of the
    > motherboards we tried unable to pass more than 500 megabit and 25% of
    > the motherboards wouldn't pass more than 100 megabit.
    >
    > 300 megabit is about where 32bit 33Mhz PCI maxes out.

    David,

    Will you please summarize the motherboard performance data so we know
    which boards to buy and which to skip? Thanks.

    Greg 

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