Re: NIC's (PCI throughput)
Bill Bogstad (bogstad@pobox.com)
Mon, 03 Aug 1998 12:25:38 -0400
Alan Cox wrote:
>> as far as i know there is no such thing. every firewall i have
>> seen/setup was build by using 2 seperate NIC cards. but if someone knows
>> that such i think exists i would very much like to hear about it!
>
>See Don Becker's tulip page - several people make quad tulip cards eg
>Adaptec..
>
>In fact right now you have 4 ultra scsi controllers on one PCI slot, 4
>tulips on a second ;)
At that point, will you be maxing out the throughput on your PCI bus?
My understanding was that the standard PCI bus had a max. throughput of 132
Megabytes a second. With Ultra scsi running 40 (80?) Mbytes per channel and
Fast Ethernet running 100 Mbits, when will you get into trouble?
Bill Bogstad
bogstad@pobox.com
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