Re: Gigabit Linux Server Bottlenecks

From: Ion Badulescu (ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 16:49:33 EST


On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:

> > There is no point in using it for transmit since the Linux
> > TCP stack currently doesn't support this.
>
> Hmm... Are you sure? Until now I thought exaclty the same with opposite
> sign. 8) Namely: there are no reasons to awake the feature in TCP,
> because no drivers support this.

There are a few drivers that could support it if the stack allowed it. :)
One of them is the starfire driver, for example.

Ion

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