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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: TX performance of Intel 82546
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:55:03 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:02:22PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:18:27AM -0400, jamal wrote:
> 
> > Our friends in FreeBSD claim they can do 1Mpps _forwarding_ with 
> > e1000 - forget about transmit only ;->
> 
> IMHO that was a 82547, attached to CSA and not PCI-X... 

Still only one e1000 can be attached to CSA. I didn't think
there are any that can do two. 

And routing only with a single NIC could be difficult... 

-Andi