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Re: Intel and TOE in the news

To: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Intel and TOE in the news
From: Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:21:04 +0100
Cc: patrick mcmanus <mcmanus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx" <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sorry for my late catch-up, didn't have time to read all mailinglists
for some time.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:12:42PM -0500, jamal wrote:
> CSA is essentially a direct link to the Northbridge System Controller
> (or MCH); there are some speacilized motherboards that have this
> feature. 

It's actually becoming more and more common.  But there are only MCH's
with a single CSA port, so you will never benefit from it if you need
more than one port.

Like everything intel seems to do (i've read about everything I could
find about their recent press releases), they concentrate on the end
host case, not packet forwarding :(

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- Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>                   http://gnumonks.org/
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