Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface"

Jeff Garzik
2003-07-14T18:48:02Z

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