Re: Intel and TOE in the news

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 15:12, patrick mcmanus wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 12:03, jamal wrote:
> > after the BSD folks claimed to be
> > doing 1Mpps forwarding (only to find out they used CSA later).
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I can't grok this. Can you elucidate?
> 

Credit should go to Harald Welte for pointing this out to me a while
back.
CSA is essentially a direct link to the Northbridge System Controller
(or MCH); there are some speacilized motherboards that have this
feature. So imagine a e1000 with no PCI-X bridge directly connected to
the MCH. The funny thing is it was supposed to be a cost-reduction
concept (no more PCI-X brifge). Refer to my earlier comment about
intel and its chipset division.

cheers,
jamal