Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface"

David griego
2003-07-14T18:59:28Z

How does one measure the reliability and security of current software TCP/IP
stacks? Some standard set of test would have to be identified and the TOEs
would need to be tested against this to ensure that they meet some minimum
standard. I would suggest offloading the minimum amount from the OS so that
most of the control could be maintaind by the OS stack. This also would
make failover/routing changes between TOE -TOE, and TOE-NIC easier. Current
offloads such as checksum and segmentation will not be enough for 10GbE
processing, so it would have to be something more than we have today.
David

>From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
>To: David griego <dagriego@hotmail.com>
>CC: alan@storlinksemi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface"
>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:02:35 -0400
>
>David griego wrote:
>>IMHO, there are several cases for some type of TCP/IP offload. One is for
>>embedded systems that are just not capable of doing 1Gbps+. Another is
>>with 10GbE, even high end servers will not be able keep up with TCP
>>processing/data movement at these speeds. Not being proactive in adopting
>>TCP/IP offload will force Linux into accepting some scheme that will not
>>necissarily be best.
>
>
>How does one evaluate a TOE stack to be sure that all the security fixes in
>Linux are also in that stack?
>
>How does one evaluate a TOE stack to be sure it doesn't add new security
>holes that Linux never had?
>
> Jeff
>
>
>

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