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From: Ed Wildgoose <lists@wildgooses.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] the "cisco vs. Linux" thread
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:44:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40F3E751.4020806@wildgooses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040708193300.GA30890@mabeys.dsl.aros.net>


> Another probably more complicated way is to use a USB hub, multiport 
> USB card or the ports built into
> your PC with USB ethernet devices.


USB 1 has a 12 Mbit bandwidth though.  And you won't be able to use all 
of that in practice either.  USB 2 is a lot higher, several hundred 
mbits, but again you will probably find it hard to completely saturate it.

USB drivers also tend to be nasty and flaky in my experience...  Should 
get better in time though.

Now a motherboard with several gigabit connections in the southbridge, 
or perhaps even multiple PCI Express interfaces... Now you would be 
talking about something cheap that could knock even a top end CISCO 
sideways...!

Some of these new Asus P4 boards look extremely close now.


P.S. Doesn't look that hot, but no one mentioned the "open brick" yet as 
a possibility
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-13 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-08 19:33 [LARTC] the "cisco vs. Linux" thread Glen Mabey
2004-07-08 21:38 ` Nicholas Erkert
2004-07-08 21:44 ` Nicholas Erkert
2004-07-09  9:47 ` Jeff Green
2004-07-09 14:35 ` Alfie Viechweg
2004-07-10 22:51 ` Glen Mabey
2004-07-10 23:25 ` Glen Mabey
2004-07-11  0:36 ` Dmitry Golubev
2004-07-11 14:48 ` S Mohan
2004-07-11 17:15 ` James Sneeringer
2004-07-11 18:48 ` José Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
2004-07-12  7:18 ` przemolicc
2004-07-12  8:15 ` Abraham van der Merwe
2004-07-12  8:39 ` przemolicc
2004-07-12  9:33 ` przemolicc
2004-07-12 14:33 ` José Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
2004-07-12 15:48 ` Ed Wildgoose
2004-07-12 16:01 ` José Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
2004-07-13  7:22 ` Ed Wildgoose
2004-07-13 11:49 ` Alfie Viechweg
2004-07-13 13:44 ` Ed Wildgoose [this message]

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