Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:13:52 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: zero-copy TCP |
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Andrew Morton writes: > Jes Sorensen wrote: > > > > I only know of a few 100baseT cards that can do it such as the > > Adaptec Starfire and the 3C905B > > (though I am not sure what it provides is sufficient). > > The 3c905, 3c905B, 3c905C and all 3Com Cardbus NICs will do > scatter and gather of up to 63 fragments per packet with > byte-granular fragment alignment and length. > > All of them except the 3c905 provide hardware Rx and Tx > checksumming of IP, TCP and UDP headers. No 64 bit > addressing support.
And does the driver support it? Has anyone benchmarked the performance difference (if any)?
Regards,
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