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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:23:36 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        glenn@ircache.net (Glenn Chisholm)
Cc:        rminnich@lanl.gov, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: profile of tcp
Message-ID:  <199910222223.XAA02622@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910221439120.9037-100000@abalaea.ircache.net> from "Glenn Chisholm" at Oct 22, 99 02:42:57 pm

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> 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


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