[AusNOG] Tech Q: Looking for Cheapest 10G Switches for Hobby Lan.

[Narelle]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Mark Smith
<nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org> wrote:
> Want to make their head explode? In some experimentation a while back, I
> measured latency of packet processing of an old Netgear FA312 100Mbps
> NIC in a P3 450Mhz, verses an Intel 1Gbps PCIe in a Q6600 quad core. The
> Netgear had lower latency, and IIRC, significantly lower latency. Of
> course, all those measurements were in microseconds, and therefore
> probably irrelevant to actual gaming, but I don't think they actually
> care. The length of the cable was measurable too at that scale. (If you
> get pictures of a fight breaking out at a LAN party over old 100Mbps
> NICs, and who's sitting closest to the switch, send them to me
> please :-) )

How did you measure this?

In all of this discussion (great btw) the actual software architecture
hasn't really been mentioned. IME that's usually where all the
bottlenecks come from, rarely the LAN...


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