Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271159AbTHCMM7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 08:12:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271163AbTHCMM7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 08:12:59 -0400 Received: from natsmtp01.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.81]:3575 "EHLO post.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271159AbTHCMM6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 08:12:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3F2CFC80.4090401@softhome.net> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 14:13:52 +0200 From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Werner Almesberger CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: TOE brain dump References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 19 Werner Almesberger wrote: > > - instead of putting a different stack on the TOE, a > general-purpose processor (probably with some enhancements, > and certainly with optimized data paths) is added to the NIC > Modern NPUs generally do this. You need to have something like this to handle e.g. routing of GE traffic. Check for example: http://www.vitesse.com/products/categories.cfm?family_id=5&category_id=16 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/