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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Intel Pro/1000 PT support?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:58:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <179078CB-5E08-4F42-8020-0BEBA81CDB75@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <225e6f4e59d66eacba8ad8459c59f9f9@quanstro.net>


On 2007-Nov-12, at 17:34 , erik quanstrom wrote:

> by the way, we've found the pro/1000 pt dual to be more cost- 
> effective.
> if you have too many ports to use 2 dual cards, it would probablly be
> more effective to use myricom cards with 10gbaseCX4 ports

Thanks for the info Erik.  I'll do a cost comparison between the 2x2  
vs. 1x4 config.  Traffic volume isn't a big concern — this is for a  
machine that will be a (mostly) passive network monitor for several  
LAN segments at a remote site.

--lyndon

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-13  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13  1:20 Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-13  1:25 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-13  1:33   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-13  1:38     ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13  1:34 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13  1:58   ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2007-11-13  2:03     ` erik quanstrom

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