Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver

Jeff Garzik
2002-05-10T15:13:16Z

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