From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TOE brain dump
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:27:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F312C65.9000201@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030806105830.B26920@hexapodia.org
Andy Isaacson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:37:58AM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
>
>>Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>>>to keep your latency down. Do any ethernet switches do cut-through?
>>>
>>According to Google, many at least claim to do this.
>>
>
> Do you have any references for this claim? I have never seen one that
> panned out (at least not since the high-end-10mbps days).
>
> Just to be clear, I am asking for an example of a Gigabit Ethernet
> switch that supports cut-through switching. I contend that there is no
> such beast commercially available today.
>
> (It would be even more interesting if it could switch 9000-octet jumbo
> frames, too.)
A few seconds of googling shows that these claim it:
http://www.blackbox.com.mx/products/pdf/europdf/81055.pdf
http://www.directdial.com/dd2/images/pdf_specsheet/J4119AABA.pdf
I'm sure there are others...
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-06 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-02 17:04 TOE brain dump Werner Almesberger
2003-08-02 17:32 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-08-02 18:06 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-02 19:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-02 21:49 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 6:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-03 17:57 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 18:27 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-03 19:40 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-03 20:13 ` David Lang
2003-08-03 20:30 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-03 21:21 ` David Lang
2003-08-03 23:44 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-03 21:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-05 19:28 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-03 20:34 ` jamal
2003-08-04 1:47 ` Glen Turner
2003-08-04 3:48 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-06 7:12 ` Andre Hedrick
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10308060009130.25045-100000@master.linux-ide .org>
2003-08-06 8:20 ` Lincoln Dale
2003-08-06 8:22 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-06 13:07 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-03 19:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-08-04 19:24 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 19:26 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-05 17:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-08-06 5:13 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-06 7:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-08-06 13:37 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-06 15:58 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 16:27 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-08-06 17:01 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 17:55 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-08-07 2:14 ` Lincoln Dale
2003-08-06 12:46 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-06 16:25 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 18:58 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-06 19:39 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 21:13 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-03 4:01 ` Ben Greear
2003-08-03 6:22 ` Alan Shih
2003-08-03 6:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-03 8:25 ` David Lang
2003-08-03 18:05 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 22:02 ` Alan Shih
2003-08-03 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-04 14:36 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-08-04 17:19 ` Alan Shih
2003-08-05 8:15 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-08-02 20:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-02 22:14 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 20:51 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <g83n.8vu.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-03 12:13 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-03 18:10 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 8:55 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-04 13:08 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-04 19:32 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 19:48 ` David Lang
2003-08-04 19:56 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 20:01 ` David Lang
2003-08-04 20:09 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 20:24 ` David Lang
2003-08-05 1:38 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-05 1:46 ` David Lang
2003-08-05 1:54 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-05 2:30 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-06 1:47 ` Val Henson
2003-08-05 3:04 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 23:30 ` Peter Chubb
[not found] <gq0f.8bj.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gvCD.4mJ.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gJmp.7Th.33@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gNpS.2YJ.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-04 14:15 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-04 14:56 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-04 15:51 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-04 18:36 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-08-04 19:03 ` Alan Cox
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