Gigabit on a dinosaur?

[Michael Sammartano]

You cant expect a slower processor to accomodate these speeds. You would need st minimum a 1.0ghz chip. Remember you can only go as fast as the weakest link..
---- Jim <arizona.anorak at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 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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