Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:45:26 +0200 (EET) | From | Grigor Gatchev <> | Subject | Re: A Layered Kernel: Proposal |
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Jesse Pollard wrote: > > > Until you add IPSEC... > > > > Unless the TOE has the same security support (encrypt some packets, not > > others, require verification from some networks, not others,...), and > > flexibility that the Linux network stack has, and ... > > Exactly. I just don't see TOE as a viable option for > networking, so I'm not too worried about not supporting > it.
It depends. Some of these integrated gadgets aren't very successful; others, however, are. Compare true modems to winmodems, or modern videocards with built-in rendering etc to bare ones. Also, on embedded systems with very tight memory and speed requirements, a TOE card may be a bad, but the only available solution.
So, IMO, a proposed kernel model must have the means to support similar devices. Some will be bad, but some may be good.
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