Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:56:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: freyes@inch.com Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet card with TCP stack built in Message-ID: <199905101756.KAA03644@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199905100533.BAA12635@arutam.inch.com> from "Francisco Reyes" at May 10, 99 01:22:22 am
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> >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. Ungermann-Bass did exactly the same thing for TCP/IP on a card on SCO Xenix 2.x. I think I have DECNet stack on 170k floppy around somewhere, too. DEC did a lot of similar stuff with their MicroVAX II Q-Bus boards. I have a 3COM board for a PS/2 that has an 80186 on it for the same purpose. This is far from a new idea; the real question: do they have FreeBSD drivers for the thing? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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