From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 10 10:57:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E4A14BD6 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 10:57:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16944; Mon, 10 May 1999 10:57:08 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd016873; Mon May 10 10:56:59 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA03644; Mon, 10 May 1999 10:56:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199905101756.KAA03644@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Ethernet card with TCP stack built in To: freyes@inch.com Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:56:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199905100533.BAA12635@arutam.inch.com> from "Francisco Reyes" at May 10, 99 01:22:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >For historical notes, Touch Communicatios implemented an ISO stack on > >on a 3com programmable NIC around 1987 --- I was part of Touch > >Communications. > > Any ideas what happened to that NIC? > It is my impression that chips that offload functions from the CPU seem > to be gaining some momentum. Probably because of advances in technology > and reduced cost of manufacturing such chips. Ungermann-Bass did exactly the same thing for TCP/IP on a card on SCO Xenix 2.x. I think I have DECNet stack on 170k floppy around somewhere, too. DEC did a lot of similar stuff with their MicroVAX II Q-Bus boards. I have a 3COM board for a PS/2 that has an 80186 on it for the same purpose. This is far from a new idea; the real question: do they have FreeBSD drivers for the thing? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message