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Alan Shih wrote:
> A DMA xfer that fills the NIC pipe with IDE source. That's not very hard...
> need a lot of bufferring/FIFO though.  May require large modification to the
> file serving applications?


Nope, that's using the existing sendfile(2) facility.

	Jeff