Re: Multiport Ethernet Cards(Plenty of em...)

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, bert hubert wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:51:33AM -0500, Richard June wrote:
> 
> > I'd be interested to know what you find. 
> > I do know that a Pentium can route almost 2 full T3s
> 
> Some people spread the rumor that by its CISC nature, a pentium will never
> be a big router. Redbacks SMS-1000 however uses Pentiums and can route up to
> 400 megabit, I'm told.

I would think It wold have more to do with limited memory bandwidth and a~
shared bus archictecture...
 
> Regards,
> 
> bert hubert
> 
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