Messages in this thread | | | From | "David griego" <> | Subject | Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface" | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:14:13 -0700 |
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How does one measure the reliability and security of current software TCP/IP stacks? Some standard set of test would have to be identified and the TOEs would need to be tested against this to ensure that they meet some minimum standard. I would suggest offloading the minimum amount from the OS so that most of the control could be maintaind by the OS stack. This also would make failover/routing changes between TOE -TOE, and TOE-NIC easier. Current offloads such as checksum and segmentation will not be enough for 10GbE processing, so it would have to be something more than we have today. David
>From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> >To: David griego <dagriego@hotmail.com> >CC: alan@storlinksemi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface" >Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:02:35 -0400 > >David griego wrote: >>IMHO, there are several cases for some type of TCP/IP offload. One is for >>embedded systems that are just not capable of doing 1Gbps+. Another is >>with 10GbE, even high end servers will not be able keep up with TCP >>processing/data movement at these speeds. Not being proactive in adopting >>TCP/IP offload will force Linux into accepting some scheme that will not >>necissarily be best. > > >How does one evaluate a TOE stack to be sure that all the security fixes in >Linux are also in that stack? > >How does one evaluate a TOE stack to be sure it doesn't add new security >holes that Linux never had? > > Jeff > > >
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