[SunHELP] sbus quad fast ethernet

[Dale Ghent]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Colin Anderson wrote:

| Can one get decent thruput with a quad fast ethernet card in a SS20? Or
| is it geared towards bigger iron? Would it be reasonable to expect
| decent routing performance with this card and SS20? Does anyone have any
| 'war stories' or other anecdotes about their experiences with it? Or
| perhaps the crazy guy in the next cube over with four quad fast ethernet
| cards in his box?

I have a QFE card in my (dual SM61) SS20 here at home, and I can't say
that I've ever had a problem with it. As for throughput, you can probably
get line-rate on two interfaces simultaneously if you have reasonably fast
CPUs in your system (SM61 or better)... but I doubt you'd get full
line-rate if all 4 were going full-tilt at the same time.

As for "routing performance"... the card has nothing to do with routing IP
packets. Speed in that area depends solely on your system CPUs.

/dale