Gigabit on a dinosaur?

[Badger, Shawn]

The bus speed on a P166 isn't fast enough to support a gig network card.
If I remember correctly it can barley support a 100M card. Even the
newer machines PCI bus will not support the full 1G from the cards, but
they do get very close though.



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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Jim
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 10:09 PM
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Subject: Gigabit on a dinosaur?

Today I bought a couple of Trendnet TEG-PCITXR gigabit ethernet cards. 
I put one in my windows box and one in my linux box.  The linux box is a

dinosaur.  It's a P166 running slackware 10.2 2.4.31 kernel.  DMESG 
shows the card is correctly identified and shows the following:

eth1: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
eth1: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.

I watched iptraf as I copied a file from the windows box to the server. 
  Iptraf was showing the incoming rate on eth1 at around 28000
kbits/sec.

Should I be getting better speeds than this or is this all I can expect 
from my dinosaur.

Thanks

Jim in Phoenix
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