Re: multi-port NIC cards

[kami petersen]

Daniel Ouellet skrev:

May be good, but the bus is PCI only if I am not mistaken looking at the 
spec. Not even PCI Express or PCI X, so it would be interesting to see, 
but if you are concern about congestions with the Intel one, may be this 
would be saturating the bus at 33MHz, or may be it might go at 66, but 
sure not 100 or 133 however. I saw some others, but none that support 
PCI Express as a minimum however. So, I discarded them.

i haven't tested any 4 port nic's whatsoever yet, and don't know much 
about these things, but isn't the theoretical throughput of the 33 MHz 
32-bit pci bus around ~1 Gbit/s?  so, assuming the system is dedicated 
to routing, why would a theoretical maximum of ~0.4 Gbit/s be so hard to 
handle, especially as most of it should stay on the internal pci bus of 
the nic?

kindly
kami petersen