Re: What's the slowest SPARC box that can saturate a gigabit link?

From: Steven Hill (news_at_waroffice.net)
Date: 12/23/04

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    Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:50:05 +0000

    > read somewhere at docs.sun.com that 100mbit network requires 110MHz cpu.
    > so 1000mbit would use 1100Mhz cpu. ( and i think backplane to ! )
    > can the pci on a on U5 really transport that amount of data ?

    I can tell you that's nonsense, although I cannot tell you what will drive
    a ge adapter... We ran one in a dual 400MHz E250, and a couple of other
    machines. I would expect it to work fine on other lower spec hardware too
    though. 

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