How much can you improve network throughput with a high-end NIC?
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 209.33.59.228]
on April 11, 2008 03:07 PM
From the looks of the off-board Intel NICs' throughput they were PCI cards. The maximum speed that the PCI bus can reach is 133 MB/s. That is shared between ALL connected PCI devices so your speeds are about right for the Intel cards. The onboard cards are probably PCI as well but they are usually designed with a specially crafted PCI bus to reach the speeds that is close to the max speed of Gigabit Ethernet. In order to get a good result from off-board NICs you will need a PCI Express NIC and motherboard. Or you will need cards and a motherboard that support a 64-bit PCI bus at 133mhz. Checkout this wikipedia article for more info on the PCI bus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X
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How much can you improve network throughput with a high-end NIC?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 209.33.59.228] on April 11, 2008 03:07 PM--Credomane
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