Re: Gigabit Linux Server Bottlenecks

From: Aaron Holtzman (aholtzma@ess4.engr.UVic.CA)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 11:16:40 EST

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    It would seem that David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com) said:
    > 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.
    >
    Bandwidth is the same as Fast Ethernet (62.5 MHz). Instead, four pairs
    are used, with 2 bits per symbol == 1000 Mbps.

    The gory details are on http://www.iol.unh.edu/training/ge.html

    cheers,
    aaron

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