On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:21 -0800, Steven Kurylo wrote: > 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. >
I think you are right. silly me - I even wrote it according to spec. I knew there was something obvious to it ;) Thanks for helping out! Conrad _______________________________________________ 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/
