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▲ WhyNotHugo 9 hours ago

Honestly, I'm really curious about this number. 10bits is 1024, so why 999G specifically?

▲abound 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Looking at the patch itself (linked in the article), the description has this:

> We now support configuring bandwidth up to ~1 Tbps (overflow in m2sm at m > 2^40).

So I think that's it, 2^40 is ~1.099 trillion

▲elevation 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Looks like an arbitrary validation cap. By the time we're maxing out the 64-bit underlying representation we probably won't be using Ethernet any more.

▲palmotea 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> By the time we're maxing out the 64-bit underlying representation we probably won't be using Ethernet any more.

We will be using Ethernet until the heat death of the universe, if we survive that long.

▲bell-cot 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet#History (& following sections)

Calling something "Ethernet" amounts to a promise that:

- From far enough up the OSI sandwich*, you can pretend that it's a magically-faster version of old-fashioned Ethernet

- It sticks to broadly accepted standards, so you won't get bitten by cutting-edge or proprietary surprises

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model