10 gigabit ethernet - Add on question

Brian A. Seklecki lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org
Tue Jan 1 12:51:02 CST 2008


On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Robert D. Holtz - Lists wrote:

> I would also be curious which OS flavor and hardware combination you would
> need to actually put a sustained 10gbps onto the wire.

Meh.  NetBSD/amd64 runs fine on the 2950/2850.  We set the record using 
Intel 10gb back in the day (2004):

   http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/03/2235255&tid=95

TCP/IP had its development origins in *BSD and in 2008 we still have the 
best stack out there.

~BAS

(Run for the hills.)



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