Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272152AbTHDTH5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:07:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272153AbTHDTH5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:07:57 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:61341 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272152AbTHDTHz (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:07:55 -0400 Subject: RE: TOE brain dump From: Alan Cox To: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" Cc: Larry McVoy , David Lang , Erik Andersen , Werner Almesberger , Jeff Garzik , netdev@oss.sgi.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Nivedita Singhvi In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1060023790.723.23.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 04 Aug 2003 20:03:11 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 17 On Llu, 2003-08-04 at 19:36, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > > Why would I want to spend money on some silly offload card when I can get > > the whole PC for less than the card? > > Because you want to stack 200 of those together in a huge > data center interconnecting whatever you want to interconnect > and you don't want your maintenance costs to go up to the sky? 17cm squared, fanless, network booting. Its not as big a cost as you might think, and TOE cards fail too, the difference being that if they are now out of production you have a nasty mess on your hands. - 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/