From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:16:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:16:12 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:28864 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:16:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:04:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20020510.080405.124002004.davem@redhat.com> To: pmanuel@myrealbox.com Cc: chen_xiangping@emc.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <3CDBFF5B.32550.1364FB2@localhost> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Pedro M. Rodrigues" Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:11:55 +0200 Actually there is. Think iSCSI. Have a look at this article at LinuxJournal - http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4896 . The Linux networking stack need have no hand in any of the IPv4 done by iSCSI, it can live entirely in the cards firmware and Linux need not know what the transport looks like at all.