RE: Gigabit Linux Server Bottlenecks

David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:10:07 -0800


> IIRC, gigaether is actually 500mbit ethernet in full duplex mode.
>
> Tho, I could be wrong.
>
> -j

You are. It really is 1 billion bits per second. It can be full or
half-duplex. Perhaps you are thinking of the bandwidth, which is 500Mhz.

DS

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