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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-16 0:48 UTC|newest]
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2003-07-15 5:51 ` TCP IP Offloading Interface David S. Miller
2003-07-16 5:02 ` jamal [this message]
2003-07-16 1:51 ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-15 16:28 David griego
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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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