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

[Simon]

If you want to test a nic use iperf

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On 18/07/2010, at 7:50 PM, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> Narelle
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