I honestly see TOE cause more issues than its supposed to fix. Basic hardware offload seems to work fine for me.
Besides switching in a server will never match speed of an ASIC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karl Fife Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [pfSense] Got TOE? 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? IIRC, integrating a TOE in any OS is tricky because it violates some principles of kernel architecture, no? I don't know enough about the state of the TOE art to know whether it is supported, feasable, or even worthwhile (at the current rate of improvement in software switching). Does anyone want to take a stab at this? I would very much appreciate it! Thanks -Karl _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
