From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 22 14:21:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (oldlabinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17FF614D02 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 14:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id XAA02622; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:23:37 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199910222223.XAA02622@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: profile of tcp To: glenn@ircache.net (Glenn Chisholm) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:23:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: rminnich@lanl.gov, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Glenn Chisholm" at Oct 22, 99 02:42:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 325 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There is however some validity in implimenting particular aspects on the > NIC. Specifically the TCP checksum off loading that a number of gigabit > NIC's have in silicon. absolutely, as it is useful that the NIC is able to follow linked list of arbitrarily aligned/sized blocks etc, but that is about it. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message