Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 May 2002 10:36:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | Nivedita Singhvi <> | Subject | Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver |
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> Obviously some form of driver is necessary to access the > device, whether or not we're pushing fully formed IP packets > or raw payload. Or is that a userland problem and I'm just > not understanding the flow from userspace through the kernel > and to the driver properly?
> Cheers, > Nicholas Harring
Your initial premise seemed to include the offload of TCP as well. Doesn't that mean:
application -> driver -> card [ creates full TCP/IP pkt ]
TCP is stateful, feature rich and highly configurable. Do you expect that a fw/hw implementation will provide an equivalent implementation? Support for tuning, options, network taps, diag, bug fixes, feature tweaks, ... ?
Very curious..
thanks, Nivedita
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