Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-23 Thread Diana Eichert
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, J.C. Roberts wrote: SNIP > Speaking of day jobs, vendors, vaporware and stuff that goes *REALLY* > fast, have you gotten to play with the 10G myrinet stuff yet? > > I'm still suffering from dehydration due to drooling at the > announcements on their website. > > JCR Not doin

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-22 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:21:22 -0600 (MDT), Diana Eichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Daniel Polak wrote: >SNIP >> Bill, >> >> As it happens I have been e-mailing with SysKonnect about the SK-9S22 >> and a possible quad port card today! >> They are thinking about a doing a qua

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-22 Thread Jon Hart
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 04:06:33PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > can sombody just GET one and stuff it in a machine? chances are good > supporting them is as easy as adding the IDs to pcidevs. I tried contacting syskonnect about an evaluation unit which they mention on their site but the mail bo

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-22 Thread Henning Brauer
* Jon Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-22 15:01]: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:19:48PM -0400, Brad wrote: > > Note, there are cards that are supported that are not listed in the > > man page. It's hard to have an exact list when there are so many cards > > out there and sometimes even different re

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-22 Thread Jon Hart
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:19:48PM -0400, Brad wrote: > Note, there are cards that are supported that are not listed in the > man page. It's hard to have an exact list when there are so many cards > out there and sometimes even different revisions with the same name > and different chipsets. The ch

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Lars Hansson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:35:27 -0500 Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be blunt, because when an enterprise just needs pure unfiltered > inter-VLAN routing, Cisco has CEF products which can route between > interfaces at bps and pps rates unapproachable using a general purpose > Unix OS and COTS

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Brad wrote: > > Brad, think you can get them to start producing the 10Gb card I've > > been talking to them for almost 2 years about? > > > > diana > > It would be nice if they even sent us the hardware that was offered via you > quite some time ago nevermind vaporware 10Gb

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Brad
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:23:04PM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Brad wrote: > SNIP > > I do not have any SK-based cards using the newer Yukon-2 chips. If someone > > could get me a card or two then it would provide incentive to support the > > cards. SysKonnect stuff is much b

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Daniel Polak wrote: SNIP > Bill, > > As it happens I have been e-mailing with SysKonnect about the SK-9S22 > and a possible quad port card today! > They are thinking about a doing a quad port card but need to be sure > that there is enough interest. > Anybody interested in a

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Brad wrote: SNIP > I do not have any SK-based cards using the newer Yukon-2 chips. If someone > could get me a card or two then it would provide incentive to support the > cards. SysKonnect stuff is much better than all the other Gig stuff out there. Brad, hink you can get the

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Brad
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:13:48PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 20:06]: > > On 7/21/05, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 09:21]: > > > > Alternately, if you really do need router throughput at or above

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Henning Brauer
* Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 20:06]: > On 7/21/05, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 09:21]: > > > Alternately, if you really do need router throughput at or above 1000Mbps, > > > you might want to consider a purpose-built gigabit route

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Brad
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:05:13PM +0200, Daniel Polak wrote: > Original message from Bill Chmura at 21-7-2005 20:02 > > >All of the traffic pretty much will be passing over the router. I see > >the wisdom of what you are saying with redesigning the network and I > >will give it some thought

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel Polak
Original message from Bill Chmura at 21-7-2005 20:02 All of the traffic pretty much will be passing over the router. I see the wisdom of what you are saying with redesigning the network and I will give it some thought, but the majority of the resources are located in one spot. I will mull

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Bill Chmura
All of the traffic pretty much will be passing over the router. I see the wisdom of what you are saying with redesigning the network and I will give it some thought, but the majority of the resources are located in one spot. I will mull that over though. As it stands, only some students doing fi

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin
On 7/21/05, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 09:21]: > > Alternately, if you really do need router throughput at or above 1000Mbps, > > you might want to consider a purpose-built gigabit router from Cisco :) > > why would you want to deal with suc

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Alexander Bochmann
Hi, ...on Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:50:20AM -0400, Bill Chmura wrote: > Ethernet wise, currently the whole mess is at 100MB... It will be that > way at least for 12 months after this. As far as heavily used, I just > got on the scene myself and the usage is way down. School, summers > off.

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Johan P . Lindström
For the sk(4) cards, if you buy the Linksys ones (only single seaters i believe) you should make sure to get the rev.2 ones, as the rev.3 is realtek based, you can tell on the retail box, it shows the little crab on the chip. Happy hunting - J On 7/21/05, Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Henning Brauer
* Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 18:12]: > I too looked for the sk cards, but there is no Quad for them. I was > hoping to reduce interrupts by using Quad cards... wrong assumption. quad card does as many ints as 4 one port cards with the same type of chip. > If I went with > sever

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Bill Chmura
After getting some much needed sleep I realized the key things I left out of the last post. Ethernet wise, currently the whole mess is at 100MB... It will be that way at least for 12 months after this. As far as heavily used, I just got on the scene myself and the usage is way down. School, s

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Brad
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:37:52PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 09:21]: > > Alternately, if you really do need router throughput at or above 1000Mbps, > > you might want to consider a purpose-built gigabit router from Cisco :) > > why would you want to dea

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Henning Brauer
* Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 09:21]: > Alternately, if you really do need router throughput at or above 1000Mbps, > you might want to consider a purpose-built gigabit router from Cisco :) why would you want to deal with such crap? geez. > > I was contemplating a > > Quad gigabit card a

Re: Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin
On 7/21/05, Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We finally got some money to build a router for the center of a 200-300 > user network. Upon arrival I found it to be one giant segment with old > old switches (sort of - not real ones) and terrible sprawl. > > I need to build a router that wil

Need Quad Ethernet for router box

2005-07-20 Thread Bill Chmura
We finally got some money to build a router for the center of a 200-300 user network. Upon arrival I found it to be one giant segment with old old switches (sort of - not real ones) and terrible sprawl. I need to build a router that will handle 7 segments, 4 of which are very heavily used, 3 of w