On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Karl Fife <[email protected]> wrote: > Are there any TCP/IP Offload Engine nic's that pfSense can leverage? A TOE > in pfSense could function somewhat like the hardware packet-forwarding ASICs > in the likes of Csco/Juniper etc, No? If supported, it seems that a TOE > could be an enabling factor for pfSense in some applications where the speed > of software switching is a limiting factor, and inch pfSense closer parity > with commercial high-speed switching. Am I thinking about this correctly? >
No. TOE provides things like checksum offloading, which is already supported most all server grade NICs, it doesn't and can't do anything to move filtering to hardware which is where virtually all the overhead exists. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
