On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 02:43:07PM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> In message <20020617141152.S3049@dr-evil.shagadelic.org>Jason R Thorpe writes
> >On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:58:03PM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> >
> >The "boards" in "in most boards" refers to "motherboards".
> 
> 
> Once more, then: Motherboards with 32/33 PCI are not a sensible test
> environment for gigabit ethernet. Taking performance numbers limited
> by such a 32/33 PCI host environment, and treating those numbers as a
> suitable performance target, is a *very* bad idea.
> 
> Or to put it another way, s/most boards/most boards you'd put a
> high-end gigabit card into/. With the exception of using my own

That's not really true -- I'm perfectly willing to spend the $100 for
a "high-end gigabit card" for every machine I have.  I"m *not* willing
to spend $200-$300 or more per machine to replace motherboard and,
probably, memory and CPU as well.  I don't think I'm that atypical in
that regard.

In any event, however, you're right that 32/33 machines aren't really
ideal for doing throughput tests on gig-e.

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