On 07 Jul, Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Dave Williams <David@williams333.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
Hi everyone
Hey Dave...
I'm building a Samba server. Am I right in thinking that the NIC is going to be the bootleneck in most configurations and if so
Hmm, I think you're very much mistaken...NIC support in Linux has come a long way. Heck, I just installed an old ISA 3COM card to try and phase out my PLIP connection at home :)
The point I was trying to make was the relative transfer speeds of the different components. A 100Mbit card is going to restrict data in and out when compared to bus/harddrive speeds (SCSI) - well that was my question but perhaps you don't agree. Having thought about this a little more 2 more questions came to mind. 1) If a Gigabit NIC is connected through a PCI slot isn't the PCI bus going to be a bottleneck? 2) Is it possible to configure multiple 100Mbit NICs and boost I/O speeds. The only problem with this is how to configure IP addresses and to make the multiple NICs transparent so that our 300+ machines use the same server through different NICs? Dave