Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Through put Question

[Jeff Macdonald]

On 6/14/07, Flaherty, Patrick <pflaherty at wsi.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not the best with these bit/byte problems so I might be wrong,
> but.....
>
> A PCI bus can pass 1056 bits a second (32 bit, 33 mhz)
> tcp/ip over head is somewhere around %20 (1056 * .8 = 844.8)
>
> What can you reasonably expect a pci gigabit card to give you for
> through put?



I thought I read somewhere gig ether should be on the motherboard, not PCI.
Since then PCI Express (or whatever the faster PCI is called) has come out
and that can handle Gig Ether...


-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA
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