Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface"

[David griego]

How does one measure the reliability and security of current software TCP/IP 
stacks?  Some standard set of test would have to be identified and the TOEs 
would need to be tested against this to ensure that they meet some minimum 
standard.  I would suggest offloading the minimum amount from the OS so that 
most of the control could be maintaind by the OS stack.  This also would 
make failover/routing changes between TOE -TOE, and TOE-NIC easier.  Current 
offloads such as checksum and segmentation will not be enough for 10GbE 
processing, so it would have to be something more than we have today.
David

>From: Jeff Garzik <[e-mail]>
>To: David griego <[e-mail]>
>CC: [e-mail],  [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface"
>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:02:35 -0400
>
>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
>
>
>

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