In a message written on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:25:12PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > Did you check PCI bus bandwidth? That's probably going to be the biggest > constraint on "a few 10GBE interfaces" if they all get going full blast. > Remember that each packet is going to burn bandwidth twice - once in and > once out...
PCIe, x8 or x16, which is serial point to point. http://www.csc.kth.se/~olofh/10G_OSR/10Gbps.pdf 25 Gb/sec across 4x10G ports on higher end but far from topped out hardware. -- Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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