[nsp] NPE-G1

[Streiner, Justin]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Gert Doering wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:47:30AM -0600, HyunSeog Ryu wrote:
> [..]
> > Besides, GE usage will be limited from PCI bus speed - 800Mb I believe -,
> > so I guess combined bandwidth from 3 GE ports in NPE-G1 can not be exceed
> > more than PCI bus speed limit at all.
>
> This is not correct!  The 3GEs on the NPE-G1 are NOT connected to any of
> the PCI buses in the 7206VXR.

True, though I haven't heard of anyone that's been able to get wire-speed
performance on the GE ports directly on the NPE-G1 using real-world
traffic/conditions :-)  I'm sure the performance is better than a PA-GE on
one of the PCI buses, but I don't know how much better...

jms