On 2007-Nov-12, at 17:34 , erik quanstrom wrote:
by the way, we've found the pro/1000 pt dual to be more cost- effective.if you have too many ports to use 2 dual cards, it would probablly be more effective to use myricom cards with 10gbaseCX4 ports
Thanks for the info Erik. I'll do a cost comparison between the 2x2 vs. 1x4 config. Traffic volume isn't a big concern — this is for a machine that will be a (mostly) passive network monitor for several LAN segments at a remote site.
--lyndon