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Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:12:10 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver
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David S. Miller wrote:

>   From: "chen, xiangping" <chen_xiangping@emc.com>
>   Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:48:23 -0400
>
>   Is there any TCP offload (TOE) card driver available on Linux?
>   
>Why do you want it?  There is no proven performance benefit.
>
>PCI bandwidth is the limiting factor for networking performance.
>


Linux TCP implementation will always be more powerful and more flexible 
than any NIC, too.  I doubt they have netlink and netfilter on NICs, for 
example :)

    Jeff