On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Conrad Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have gotten myself into installing some linux boxes as 10GBit/s > internet Gateways. > The internet connection is delivered as 10GBit/s Ethernet-over-Fibre. > The card is in a PCIe 8 Lane slot. > > I gather from [1] that 1 Lane is roughly 500 MBit/s. So 8 lanes would > give me 4 GBit/s. How on earth could this card do 10GBit/s?
I think you're confusing bit and bytes. PCIe is 500 megabytes, so 8 lanes is 4 gigabytes. That's 32 gigabits. Your NIC is doing 10 gigabits. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
