Re: TCP IP Offloading Interface

jamal
2003-07-16T00:48:16Z

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 01:51, David S. Miller wrote:

> > Note that Microsoft is considering TOE under its Scalable Networking
> > Program. To keep linux competitive, I would encourage a healthy
> > discussion on this matter
>
> I actually welcome Microsoft falling into this rathole of a
> technology. Let them have to support that crap and have to field bug
> reports on it, having to wonder who created the packets. And let them
> deal with the negative effects TOE has on connection rates and things
> like that.
>
> Linux will be competitive, especially if people develop the scheme I
> have described several times into the hardware. There are vendors
> doing this, will you choose to be different and ignore this?

A friend of mine mentioned that the MS support may all be a big scam.
It makes it easy to kill TOE if they get involved ;->
Yes, there will be some MIS managers who will buy the M$ B$.

What about infiniband which has all this built in offloading? What
happened to VIA?

cheers,
jamal