Good point--the 760 mbits/sec figure comes from on-the-motherboard
(Intel 82540EM) gigabit w/ the latest drivers.  I assume they're
"64 bit PCI."

YMMV of course.

steve
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systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin

 > ---- Original Message ----
 > From: Robert McCarthy
 > One thing I noticed with Gb NIC's is the bus speed of the system matters
 > ALOT.. and is it a 64 bit PCI slot or is it a 32 bit slot.  The few Gb NIC
 > I have had disclaimers about limited bandwidth using 32 bit slots.  And
 > make sure you check your drivers!
 >
 > At 12:35 PM 5/5/2004, Steve Rader wrote:
 > >Iperf between Linux systems with gigabit consistantly reports
 > >around 760 mbits/sec (95 MB/s.)  [1]
 > >
 > >I don't have a Sun with gigabit right now, but it'd probably be
 > >easy for you to try iperf.  I'd be curious to know what you get.
 > >(I sure hope it's more than 40 MB/s!)
 > >
 > >steve
 > >- - -
 > >systems & network guy
 > >high energy physics
 > >university of wisconsin
 >
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