On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 06:40:05PM +0100, Alastair McKinley composed:
> Hi Nicholas and Roman,
> Thanks for your comments.
> The bandwidth I'm expecting is quite low. Average about 8Mbits/port.
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> I'm trying to analyse and process the traffic from a number of different
> hosts using Click. Unfortunately each host needs to be connected to a
> unique interface.
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> I haven't eliminated the idea of abandoning this approach altogether,
> but I would like to give it a try.
I really think with a desire to scale to 40+ hosts, you would do
better buying a managed GigE switch. Have each host's port on its own
VLAN, with the connection(s) to the click box as a VLAN-tagged trunk.
This way, the click host has full connectivity, but each host can only
reach the click ports.
> So I guess I could get 4-5 4-port e1000 PCI-E NICS and stick them on a
> motherboard with 4-5 PCI-E slots?
>
> Once again, thanks everyone for your comments.
>
> Alastair
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