[rescue] Re: Fast Ethernet vs. SS2

Mike Hebel nimitz at speakeasy.net
Mon Nov 11 18:58:55 CST 2002


Scott Newell wrote:

> At 06:42 PM 11/11/2002 -0600, Mike Hebel wrote:
>
> >You may be right about the full-duplex Greg but he can still take some
> >of the networking load off of the CPU by using a card that is faster
> >than the SBUS speed.
>
>
> Isn't sbus on the ss2 20 MHz x 32 bits?  That's a heck of a lot more than
> 100 Mbits/second.

I dun be _bad_ at math.  Publik edumacation and such...

Honestly I forgot to factor in bus-width but you're probably right. 
Either way the man benefits from 100mb full-duplex.

Mike Hebel



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