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Once more, dear friends, around the wheel of karmaOnce more, dear friends, around the wheel of karmaPosted Dec 4, 2003 14:07 UTC (Thu) by davecb (subscriber, #1574)Parent article: No fear of the fire engine The cycle from cpu-based graphics to add-on-card-based graphics is so common that it has a nickname: "the wheel of karma". Expect the same to apply to add-on-card ethernet. I also recollect discussing this same subject with a router/firewall designer in the 386 era (;-))
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Once more, dear friends, around the wheel of karma Posted Dec 4, 2003 19:20 UTC (Thu) by acristianb (guest, #1702) [Link] I agree that as network becomes faster and the CPU cannot keep up with it the need for offloading arises. But I remember vaguely that there was a NIC or maybe something more than that that was based on an embeded Linux chip. I seem to remember seeing it like a year ago or so. Anybody has more details? Could this solve the problem for openess (i.e. you have an embeded Linux running on the xGig card and upgrade it when necessary)?
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