RE: Accelerated TCP/IP support from kernel

2001-05-25 Thread Bharath Madhavan
ent set of drivers at the socket level, that will do the trick I think. Is this easy? Thanks a lot Bharath -Original Message- From: David S. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 7:08 PM To: Bharath Madhavan Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Accele

RE: Accelerated TCP/IP support from kernel

2001-05-24 Thread Gerhard Mack
mes did the system throughput increase? > Thanks a lot > Bharath > > > > > -Original Message- > From: David S. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:29 PM > To: Bharath Madhavan > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: A

Re: Accelerated TCP/IP support from kernel

2001-05-24 Thread David S. Miller
Bharath Madhavan writes: > I am looking into a scenario where we have a NIC which performs > all the TCP/IP processing and basically the core CPU offloads all data from > the socket level interface onwards to this NIC. Why would you ever want to do this? Point 1: Support for new TCP t

Accelerated TCP/IP support from kernel

2001-05-24 Thread Bharath Madhavan
Hello all, I am looking into a scenario where we have a NIC which performs all the TCP/IP processing and basically the core CPU offloads all data from the socket level interface onwards to this NIC. Can Linux do this as of now. I saw some limited support like TCP/IP checksumming being do