Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: zero-copy TCP | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 03 Sep 2000 16:37:06 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au> writes:
Andrew> Jes Sorensen wrote: >> I only know of a few 100baseT cards that can do it such as the >> Adaptec Starfire and the 3C905B (though I am not sure what it >> provides is sufficient).
Andrew> The 3c905, 3c905B, 3c905C and all 3Com Cardbus NICs will do Andrew> scatter and gather of up to 63 fragments per packet with Andrew> byte-granular fragment alignment and length.
Andrew> All of them except the 3c905 provide hardware Rx and Tx Andrew> checksumming of IP, TCP and UDP headers. No 64 bit addressing Andrew> support.
Read what I wrote above, the 905B was on the list I posted ;-) The 905B is not a 1995 card on the other hand. The 905 doesn't count since scatter/gather without checksumming makes it pretty useless.
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