From: Jerry B. Altzman > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (Putting a total of 6 quad-port NICs on a single PCI-bus would totally swamp >> that bus though, so if one were to actually use so many NICs I would rather >> recommend e.g. the Asus P5BP-E/4L motherboard. It has 3 PCI slots and 3 >> PCI-E slots in addition to the four gigabit LAN ports included on the >> motherboard - so you can get a total of 28 ports if you fully populate all >> slots with quad-port NICs (not counting any USB-connected ethernet ports one >> might add.) It also has built-in graphics so one does not need to waste >> one slot on a graphics card.) > > And all this just to *pass packets*; if you're making real *routing* > decisions based upon that (i.e. you're making a router rather than a > switch), which requires that packets take a trip to the CPU, you'll > find yourself coming to the realization that Cisco and Juniper might > actually be on to something, there, and that ASICs might actually be > worth what you paid for them. > > YMMV, HTH, HAND.
I don't need that many Ethernet ports, but I do need most of those PCI slots. I was unable to locate a box with more than four slots and a warranty that was acceptable to our Production group. I'm still not sure about the warranty or that we can buy it in a case with power supply. But at least I have a vector to resume my search. Thanks, Bob McConnell _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
