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Is Network Trunking possible at Gigabit Ethernet?

April 26, 2017Ethernet Gigabit Network possible trunking

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Is Network Trunking possible at Gigabit Ethernet?

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If you use Network Trunking on Gigabit Ethernet, you should use Ethernet Switches and NICs which support JUMBO FRAME on 66MHz 64bit PCI in order to achieve high bandwidth because of slackness of PCI DMA bandwidth. On PCI-X or on multiple PCI buses, the performance may be increased. Please refer to “PM Communication Performance” of “SCore Cluster System Software Overview”. Note: We have tested SysKonnect 9843 NICs, 3Com 996B-T and Broadcom 5701 NICs using Network Trunking with JUMBO FRAMEs. We have also tested Intel PRO100T, PRO1000XT but not tested with JUMBO FRAMEs.