Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 19:09:03 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet card with TCP stack built in Message-ID: <199905110009.TAA68892@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> of "Mon, 10 May 1999 17:56:56 -0000." <199905101756.KAA03644@usr07.primenet.com>
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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
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