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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Jordi Ros <jros@xiran.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, alan@storlinksemi.com
Subject: Re: TCP IP Offloading Interface
Date: 16 Jul 2003 01:02:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058329895.1796.28.camel@jzny.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030714225133.18395b69.davem@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 01:51, David S. Miller wrote:

> > Note that Microsoft is considering TOE under its Scalable Networking
> > Program. To keep linux competitive, I would encourage a healthy
> > discussion on this matter
> 
> I actually welcome Microsoft falling into this rathole of a
> technology.  Let them have to support that crap and have to field bug
> reports on it, having to wonder who created the packets.  And let them
> deal with the negative effects TOE has on connection rates and things
> like that.
> 
> Linux will be competitive, especially if people develop the scheme I
> have described several times into the hardware.  There are vendors
> doing this, will you choose to be different and ignore this?

A friend of mine mentioned that the MS support may all be a big scam.
It makes it easy to kill TOE if they get involved ;->
Yes, there will be some MIS managers who will buy the M$ B$.

What about infiniband which has all this built in offloading? What
happened to VIA?

cheers,
jamal




  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-16  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-15  5:42 TCP IP Offloading Interface Jordi Ros
2003-07-15  5:51 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-16  5:02   ` jamal [this message]
2003-07-16  1:51     ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-15 19:01 ` Ralph Doncaster
2003-07-15 19:36   ` Chris Dukes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-15 16:28 David griego
2003-07-13  7:33 Alan Shih
2003-07-13  7:48 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-13 16:22   ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-13 16:31     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-13 16:49       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-13 16:58       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-13 23:02     ` David S. Miller
2003-07-13 23:35       ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-13 23:40         ` David S. Miller
2003-07-13 23:54           ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-13 23:53             ` David S. Miller
2003-07-14  0:22               ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-14  0:24                 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-14  0:48                   ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-14  0:46               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-14  0:42                 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-16  2:46                   ` Matt Porter
2003-07-14  0:20       ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-14  0:28         ` David S. Miller
2003-07-16  2:37   ` Matt Porter
2003-07-13 14:51 ` Jeff Garzik

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