From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 9 22:33:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from arutam.inch.com (ns.inch.com [207.240.140.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898551551D for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 22:33:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from your-name (TC2-dial-65-215.oldslip.inch.com [207.240.215.65]) by arutam.inch.com (8.9.1a/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA12635; Mon, 10 May 1999 01:33:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199905100533.BAA12635@arutam.inch.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Amancio Hasty" Cc: "FreeBSd Chat list" Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 01:22:22 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Ethernet card with TCP stack built in Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 09 May 1999 22:26:24 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: >For historical notes, Touch Communicatios implemented an ISO stack on >on a 3com programmable NIC around 1987 --- I was part of Touch >Communications. Any ideas what happened to that NIC? It is my impression that chips that offload functions from the CPU seem to be gaining some momentum. Probably because of advances in technology and reduced cost of manufacturing such chips. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message