From: "Geo" 

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> Won't the gigabit switch send only the packets destined for a system to
> that system?

I guess, but what about the case where you are trying to be a server so
everyone else on the network is talking to you. If the network functions
are going to suck up all the cpu then how could you run a database server
on a gigabit network?

Geo.

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