Re: TOE brain dump

From: Werner Almesberger (werner@almesberger.net)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 08:37:58 EST


Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Afford, they can do. A lot of the users are researchers and
> a lot of people doing the code are researchers. So corralling
> them up and getting production quality code can be a challenge,

Ah, the joy of herding cats :-) But I guess you just need a
sufficiently competent and sufficiently well-funded group
that goes ahead and does it. There is usually little point
in directly involving everyone who may have an opinion.

> to keep your latency down. Do any ethernet switches do cut-through?

According to Google, many at least claim to do this.

- Werner

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