On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:38 -0500, Singer X.J. Wang wrote: > Each PCIe Lane is 250MB/s > > Sent from my smartphone with a ridiculously small virtual keyboard. > > On 2011-01-16, at 14:25, Steven Kurylo <[email protected]> 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. > > _________
yes - I messed up MByte/s and MBit/s ... sorry everyone for taking up your time! Thanks! 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/
