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That would be true, if the switches and interfaces were all powered off between packets.

Dream on.


Looks lke the IEEE is working on this based on this story. While it doesn't completely power down, the idea is to run the link at the minimum speed needed, so when idle the ports are throttled down to 10mbit.


Yes, we've been discussing such on various kernel lists recently. But it does tend to collide with the desire for jumbo frames, which are not normally supported below GigE.

Cheers