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Once more, dear friends, around the wheel of karma

Once more, dear friends, around the wheel of karma

Posted Dec 4, 2003 19:20 UTC (Thu) by acristianb (guest, #1702)
In reply to: Once more, dear friends, around the wheel of karma by davecb
Parent article: No fear of the fire engine

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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