> While I have everybody's attention, what's a reasonable goal for > throughput between two of these cards? I broke through the 33mhz pci > barrier and am now getting iperf results of:
Not sure about BCM chips, but good GE cards can do wire speed: Intel PRO/1000 - controller 82547EI integrated on motherboard ASUS P4C800-E (266 MByte/s CSA connection) Theoretical max: 941.482 Mbit/s TCP Window: 128 KB ./nttcp -T -n1000000 147.175.1.37 Bytes Real s CPU s Real-MBit/s CPU-MBit/s Calls Real-C/s CPU-C/s l-198967296 34.81 7.68 941.3511 4267.6174 1000000 28727.76 130237.3 1-198967296 34.81 5.00 941.3099 6557.3390 1114605 32018.70 223048.2 M. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---- ---- Marian Durkovic network manager ---- ---- ---- ---- Slovak Technical University Tel: +421 2 524 51 301 ---- ---- Computer Centre, Nam. Slobody 17 Fax: +421 2 524 94 351 ---- ---- 812 43 Bratislava, Slovak Republic E-mail/sip: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- ---- ---- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"