Subject: Re: TCP IP Offloading Interface
From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Jordi Ros <jros@xiran.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, alan@storlinksemi.com
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On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 01:51, David S. Miller wrote:

> > Note that Microsoft is considering TOE under its Scalable Networking
> > Program. To keep linux competitive, I would encourage a healthy
> > discussion on this matter
> 
> I actually welcome Microsoft falling into this rathole of a
> technology.  Let them have to support that crap and have to field bug
> reports on it, having to wonder who created the packets.  And let them
> deal with the negative effects TOE has on connection rates and things
> like that.
> 
> Linux will be competitive, especially if people develop the scheme I
> have described several times into the hardware.  There are vendors
> doing this, will you choose to be different and ignore this?

A friend of mine mentioned that the MS support may all be a big scam.
It makes it easy to kill TOE if they get involved ;->
Yes, there will be some MIS managers who will buy the M$ B$.

What about infiniband which has all this built in offloading? What
happened to VIA?

cheers,
jamal


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