Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface"

[Jeff Garzik]

David griego wrote:
> IMHO, there are several cases for some type of TCP/IP offload.  One is 
> for embedded systems that are just not capable of doing 1Gbps+.  Another 
> is with 10GbE, even high end servers will not be able keep up with TCP 
> processing/data movement at these speeds.  Not being proactive in 
> adopting TCP/IP offload will force Linux into accepting some scheme that 
> will not necissarily be best.

How does one evaluate a TOE stack to be sure that all the security fixes 
in Linux are also in that stack?

How does one evaluate a TOE stack to be sure it doesn't add new security 
holes that Linux never had?

	Jeff