On Fri, 15 May 2009, Leo Bicknell wrote: > PCIe, x8 or x16, which is serial point to point. > > http://www.csc.kth.se/~olofh/10G_OSR/10Gbps.pdf > > 25 Gb/sec across 4x10G ports on higher end but far from topped out > hardware. > further illustrating the point - 10gige ~linerate load balancing on a single core2 e8200 using haproxy + myricom 10gige cards: http://haproxy.1wt.eu/10g.html -jba