# RE: The ultimate TOE design

- From: Leonid Grossman \<hidden\>
- Date: 2004-09-24 13:23:09 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2004/09/671537
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/lkml/2004/09/669141/t.md

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lennert Buytenhek [mailto:<redacted>] 
> 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:
> 
> > 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
> 
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