RE: [ethmac] FW: new ethernet adapter

[Kent Dahlgren <kent@praesum.com>]

At 11:31 AM 4/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>What is, or what do you mean by, VIA support?
>- Woody
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > The problem has always been that these coprocessors have never given much
> > in
> > the way of bang for the buck. In addition they tend to focus on off
> > loading
> > protocol processing overhead from the host. If you really want to increase
> >
> > performance you need to attack the fundamental problem and that is
> > latency.
> > So if you really want do something slick and cool with this MAC provide
> > VIA
> > support.

VIA = Virtual Interface Architecture.

A user mode networking technique used for high performance server clustering.

         http://www.viarch.org/

         http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~philipb/papers/SC98/sc98_html/

Have fun

Kent


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