[tech] hydra (uccrouter 2)

[Ian McKellar]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 06:38:15AM +0800, Leighton Haynes wrote:
> I don't see it as being that useful, but for different reaons. Most of the
> things on that second segment either don't generate much traffic, or have
> 10Mbit cards.
> As for the PCI bus... i threw almost 1000Mbit through it. 100Mbit shouldn't
> be an issue. (It's only 33MHz, but it's pretty wide.)

Good point.

> Wonder if the drivers are
> bright enough to work out when a packets just being routed, and transfer 
> directly card->card instead of card->main memory->card ;)

Yes, but we want to route traffic not just switch/bridge it. I had to turn
all the blisteringly fast card to card stuff.

Ian