Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface" | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 07:42:01 -0500 |
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On Monday 14 July 2003 14:26, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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
Not to mention the problems IPSec would have with such a device. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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