From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 10 17:54:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E278815557 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:54:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-254.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.254]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA03095 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 19:54:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (nospam.hiwaay.net [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA68892 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 19:09:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199905110009.TAA68892@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Ethernet card with TCP stack built in In-reply-to: Message from Terry Lambert of "Mon, 10 May 1999 17:56:56 -0000." <199905101756.KAA03644@usr07.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 19:09:03 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert writes: > This is far from a new idea; the real question: do they have FreeBSD > drivers for the thing? As I recall the high-end SGI servers have a CPU on the I/O board to offload ethernet and SCSI chores. The IO3 board in my old 4D3x0's had a 68030. Was told at boot time this CPU initializes the whole system, does the initial hardware inventory, then finally boots a MIPS CPU to finish the process. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message