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. > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- The best compliment you could give Pythian for our service is a referral. _______________________________________________ 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/
