From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263504AbTKZFlb (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:41:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263823AbTKZFlb (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:41:31 -0500 Received: from h80ad25ef.async.vt.edu ([128.173.37.239]:49796 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263504AbTKZFla (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:41:30 -0500 Message-Id: <200311260541.hAQ5fPmw029996@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: "Mr. BOFH" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fire Engine?? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:15:12 PST." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_4772620P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:41:24 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_4772620P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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. --==_Exmh_4772620P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE/xD0EcC3lWbTT17ARAsKyAJ4ju8BoQRUeJ6HK+gD3u5rmeVDArgCgmQAW PcIgkh4x7pLSn+iZJTUogsE= =CjBq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_4772620P--