TCP Offload to the Rescue

  • Authors:
  • Andy Currid

  • Affiliations:
  • iReady

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Open Source
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In recent years, TCP/IP offload engines, known as TOEs, haveattracted a good deal of industry attention and a sizable share ofventure capital dollars. A TOE is a specialized network device thatimplements a significant portion of the TCP/IP protocol inhardware, thereby offloading TCP/IP processing from softwarerunning on a general-purpose CPU. This article examines the reasonsbehind the interest in TOEs and looks at challenges involved intheir implementation and deployment.