On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:15:12 PST, "Mr. BOFH" said: > > Sun has announced that they have redone their TCP/IP stack and is showing > for some instances a 30% improvement over Linux.... > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/33440.html Hmm.. IBM tried this same idea with their 8232 Ethernet controller (basically, an 'industrial' PC with a 3Com card and a bus&tag card) and offload of some TCP/IP functionality back in 1988 or so.