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From: Rik H. <rik...@ya...> - 2006-01-19 10:54:06
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--- Jesse Brandeburg <jes...@in...> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Rik Herrin wrote: > > Hi, > > We were thinking of purchasing the Intel > PRO/1000 MT > > Quad Port Server Adapter and plan on running it > under > > Linux. The idea is to aggregate the 4 ports and > use > > jumbo frames to increase throughput for an iSCSI > > target. Does anyone know of any issues that I > should > > take care of or has anyone used such a setup? > Thank > > you for your time. > > The only caveat to remember is that you're going to > be trying to push > (worst case) up to 8 Gb/s over a single slot with > all 4 ports. This is > close to the maximum theoretical bandwidth of the > slot. Thanks for your input. Just out of curiosity, what type of hardware (hard disks + RAID controller) would get me to this this upper limit? I'd think that considering the bandwidth achieved by using 4 ports at 1 GiB cards with jumbo frames would outperform any hard disk / storage. > If you're looking for an absolute throughput gain > you'd be better off with > 2 dual port adapters (if you have two pci-x 133/100 > Mhz slots available of > course) > > If you're looking to get four ports where you only > have one slot, then you > have to use something like the Quad Port adapter. > > Jesse > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do > you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search > engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the > web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > E1000-devel mailing list > E10...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com |