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TCP Offload to the Rescue

2004; Association for Computing Machinery; Volume: 2; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1145/1005062.1005069

1542-7749

Andy Currid,

Distributed systems and fault tolerance

In recent years, TCP/IP offload engines, known as TOEs, have attracted a good deal of industry attention and a sizable share of venture capital dollars. A TOE is a specialized network device that implements a significant portion of the TCP/IP protocol in hardware, thereby offloading TCP/IP processing from software running on a general-purpose CPU. This article examines the reasons behind the interest in TOEs and looks at challenges involved in their implementation and deployment.