Just remember that those customers will come back to you a few months later and ask why there is next to zero performance benefit from the more expensive TOE solution compared to the TSO+checksum offloading solution.
Not to mention the loss of flexibility (netfilter, etc) and the near-impossibility to do security evaluation, and the near-impossibility to do security errata if a bug is found in the offloaded TCP stack after product deployment.
TCP Offload is, IMO, a legal liability no company with smart lawyers would touch...
Jeff
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