Re: The ultimate TOE design

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

> > I was referring to the server side.
> > One can certanly build a 10GbE box based on IPX2800 (or some other parts),
> > but at 17-25W it is not usable in NICs since the entire PCI card budget is
> > less than that - nothing left for 10GbE PHY, memory, etc.

I have a graphics card which requires two four pin molex power connectors, 
going back in time there have allway been certain perphiral cards which 
required external (non-bus supplied power sources for whatever reason) 
(hard-drive on a card, sparc on a card, pc on a card, early 90's hardware 
mpeg encoder, data collection device, remote mangement card, graphics card 
in modern mac etc), it's obviously not a general solution, but it's been 
done frequently enough that it shouldn't just be discarded out of hand.

> Ah, ok, that makes sense.  As someone else also noted, the IXP2800
> only has a 64/66 PCI interface anyway, so it wouldn't really be
> suitable for the task you were referring to.
>
>
> cheers,
> Lennert
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