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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (79179)	5/3/2002 8:16:14 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) of 275872

wbmw: It's called TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine), and you may see it start to pop up in numerous designs over the next few years. From what I hear, it's pretty expensive to implement, and it takes up a lot of die size, but it really does accelerate the speed of networking over TCP/IP. I see the IBM chip has an integrated ethernet controller. Is this necessary in order to implement the TOE (fruitfully)? In other words, would one place the TOE with the ethernet controller or the NIC? It seems to me that the TOE would only really make a difference when the processor is experiencing serious loads (and TCP/IP trafic is high). In what scenarios do you see this happening? In the PC-centric world, TCP/IP is used for pretty much everything, but clearly something like browsing the web doesn't exactly put a strain on your processor ;-). That leaves LAN / WAN scenarios and gaming over fast internet connections. Of the former, clusters and servers would be the major areas where this could make a difference - and quite possibly be worth the extra costs. As for gaming, well, there is always a small group of players willing to pay the costs for the ultimate gaming machine, but considering the bottlenecks in current generations of games, especially on-line, it would seem to be irrelevant. -fyo

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