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To: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
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Werner Almesberger wrote:
> 
>  - instead of putting a different stack on the TOE, a
>    general-purpose processor (probably with some enhancements,
>    and certainly with optimized data paths) is added to the NIC
> 

    Modern NPUs generally do this.
    You need to have something like this to handle e.g. routing of GE 
traffic.

    Check for example: 
http://www.vitesse.com/products/categories.cfm?family_id=5&category_id=16