[Gllug] socket buffer overrun

Huw Lynes huw-l at moving-picture.com
Wed Oct 19 14:03:13 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 14:57 +0100, Tethys wrote:
> Ben Fitzgerald writes:
> 
> >> Are you aware of the existence of TCP/IP accelerators?
> >no. I will google.
> 
> Also known as TOE -- TCP Offload Engines. Also widely debunked by the
> Linux networking guys as unnecessary. There's some debate about whether
> they actually make a difference at all, but wide agreement that if they
> do, it doesn't come into effect until you're using 10Gb/s cards and above.

when we benchmarked the alacritec and adaptec TOE cards we came to the
conclusion that they were worse than useless.


YMMV,
Huw

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