[Soekris] net5501 page is up

Michael Stone mstone+soekris at mathom.us
Fri Dec 15 12:28:46 UTC 2006


On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 06:10:03PM -0800, Ray Percival wrote:
>On Dec 14, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Adam Egan wrote:
>> Wasn't this board supposed to have gigabit ethernet? If not, does
>> anyone know when Soekris will produce a board that does? Suppose it
>> might need a faster processor to fully take advantage of full 1000mbps
>> speed though?
>
>My guess would be that it will be the 7501. Which makes sense.   
>Simply because there are a lot of places where a gig card buys you  
>almost nothing so having one model with and one without seems like a  
>Good Idea to me.

Also, it would make sense to have a model that can push 100Mbps before 
worrying about a model that can push 1000Gbps...

Mike Stone


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