-----Original Message-----
From: Lennert Buytenhek [mailto:buytenh@wantstofly.org] 
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 6:08 AM
To: Leonid Grossman
Cc: 'David S. Miller'; 'Jeff Garzik'; 
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk; paul@clubi.ie; netdev@oss.sgi.com; 
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The ultimate TOE design

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:29:45PM -0700, Leonid Grossman wrote:

quoted

And at 10GbE, embedded CPUs just don't cut it - it has to be custom 
ASIC (granted, with some means to simplify debugging and reduce the 
risk of hw bugs and TCP changes).

Intel's IXP2800 can do 10GbE.

Hi Lennert,
I was referring to the server side. 
One can certanly build a 10GbE box based on IPX2800 (or some other parts),
but at 17-25W it is not usable in NICs since the entire PCI card budget is
less than that - nothing left for 10GbE PHY, memory, etc.
Leonid

http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/ixp2800.htm


--L