Re: TOE brain dump

Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-03T12:12:59Z

Werner Almesberger wrote:
>
> - instead of putting a different stack on the TOE, a
> general-purpose processor (probably with some enhancements,
> and certainly with optimized data paths) is added to the NIC
>

Modern NPUs generally do this.
You need to have something like this to handle e.g. routing of GE
traffic.