Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:26:50 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface" |
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David griego wrote: > 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.
Anything beyond basic host-only TOE adds massive complexity for very little gain: interfacing netfilter and routing code with a black box we _hope_ will act properly sounds like suicide.
> 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.
All this is vague handwaving without supporting evidence. So far we get stuff like Internet2 speed records _without_ TOE. And Linux currently supports 10gige... and hosts are just going to keep getting faster and faster.
Jeff
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