On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 01:51, David S. Miller wrote: > > Note that Microsoft is considering TOE under its Scalable Networking > > Program. To keep linux competitive, I would encourage a healthy > > discussion on this matter > > I actually welcome Microsoft falling into this rathole of a > technology. Let them have to support that crap and have to field bug > reports on it, having to wonder who created the packets. And let them > deal with the negative effects TOE has on connection rates and things > like that. > > Linux will be competitive, especially if people develop the scheme I > have described several times into the hardware. There are vendors > doing this, will you choose to be different and ignore this? A friend of mine mentioned that the MS support may all be a big scam. It makes it easy to kill TOE if they get involved ;-> Yes, there will be some MIS managers who will buy the M$ B$. What about infiniband which has all this built in offloading? What happened to VIA? cheers, jamal - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
