On 08/12/2010 06:06 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Jerry Franzjfranz@freerun.com wrote:
On 08/12/2010 05:56 AM, Daniel Bruno wrote:
Someone can indicate some Ethernet device Quad 10/100 to use with CentOS 5.x
I don't know about 10/100. For 10/100/1000 I use Intel quad port boards. They work fine.
Sorry to hijack this thread, but it could be relevant. As matter of interest, do these cards offer lower throughput than 4x single 1GB cards?
If you should use them in a PCI slot yes, not if you use them in a PCI-X or PCI-e slot (although you could saturate a PCI-e x1 with 4 gbit ports I think).
Depends mostly on if you are using PCI/PCI-X vs PCI-express. At high bit rates you can saturate the old PCI bus. A single gigabit port can pretty much saturate a 32-bit PCI bus at 33MHz.
PCI-express can go a lot faster.
The Intel Quad cards don't fit (and don't then) in a single PCI slot. The Intel Dual Gbit cards do and you can saturate a PCI slot with it quite easy :)
Regards,
Michel