On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 11:08 -0400, Casey Mills wrote: > Anyone using these? > http://www.roc-noc.com/product.php?productid=55&cat=0&page=1 > > It is getting much harder to find a board with this many PCI slots. > Maybe Mikrotik needs to make a PCI Express card. > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121412
For multiple GigE ports, you can't reasonably expect full throughput on PCI bus. This is why you need PCI-E or PCI-X. I agree that MT should make one, but they don't. This is the reason we have abandoned MT for high throughput routers. I have multiple boxes that can do multiple GigE (even 10Gig) ports, but they are Intel chipsets, which is not in the cards for MT, since they are in a race to the bottom of the price race. > Can a PCI port even transfer > 4 gigabits per second? No. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
