Altera/Microtronix NiosII Eval. Kit

It sounds a great solution. As I mentioned in the first post, my application is very simple: Ethernet to SDRAM. I would like to have a reference design for host to Cyclone data transfer using socket (Plug?) without OS.

I am wandering what is average data throughput from host to SDRAM using the core and Eval Kit.

I like the hardware of Eval kit because I'm planning to use Firefly modules in my design.

Does the core support other PHYs in case the TDK PHY is not available?

Thanks