[Suns-at-Home] Gigabit Ethernet for Ultra 10

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

At 12:50 PM 4/18/2007, Thorsten Nitsch wrote:

> > recommending at least 300mhz of CPU capacity available to support a
> > single gbit adapter - over and above your other computational needs.
> > since the ultra 10 is from that general era, it may be applicable.
>Thank you (and G=E9rard as well) for the guidance to the CPU.
>I have a 440MHz CPU installed, so this _might_=20
>be enough to make it faster than a 100MBit interface.
>Honestly, I haven't thought much about CPU or=20
>similar limitations so I'm grateful for every additional information.

happy to assist. of course, newer gbit adapters=20
may have some processing power on the card to=20
offload the work, so the caveat may be moot.


Paul Theodoropoulos
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