From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:11:31 +1000
> 5) RDMA over TCP on the receive side is offloaded into the NIC. This > allows the NIC to directly place data into the application's buffer. > > We're starting to have a little bit of a problem because it means that > part of the incoming IP traffic is now being directly processed by the > NIC, with no input from the Linux TCP/IP stack. > > However, as long as the connection establishment/acks are still > controlled/seen by Linux we can probably live with it. As I have detailed in other emails, even if you get the connection establishment packets processed by netfilter, you can end up with a non-working connection because NAT can want to transform all of the established state packets in the same way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
