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To: Allen Benn who wrote (9806)7/30/2001 1:37:22 AM
From: lkj  Read Replies (2) of 10309
 
Allen,

Thank you very much for the insightful answer.

GbE (with 10GbE looming around the corner) benefits dramatically from intelligent NICs that can offload the TCP/IP stack and improve the necessary data flow to the CPU. Should iNICs become a de facto standard in servers and PCs alike, as it should, then, surprise, it also accommodates Infiniband’s messaging virtually automatically. This is because iLANs have the intelligence capability and the I2O smarts to talk Infiniband messaging.

Are you suggesting that off-loading the TCP/IP stack onto the Gbe NIC requires the usage of IxWorks? Can you explain more about why Infiniband's messaging is automatically accommodated on intelligent Gbe NIC?

Khan
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