# Re: The ultimate TOE design

- From: Michael Richardson \<hidden\>
- Date: 2004-09-15 21:23:13 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2004/09/669191

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>>>>> "David" == David S Miller [ref] writes:
    >> The point was more to show people who are doing TOE _anyway_ to a decent 
    >> design.

    David> We shouldn't be forced to refine people's non-sensible ideas which
    David> we'll not support anyways.

    David> If TOE is supported on Windows only, I happily welcome that.

  Ha. Too hard to do :-)

  The TOEs and L7 content switches that I know of are supported...
      UNDER LINUX ONLY 

  The one that I'm most familliar with (Seaway's SW5000/NCA2000)
provides a new socket family to the host, which corresponds to streams
that terminate on the NCA2000.  The host can request things like having
two TCP streams be cross-connected, even adding/subtracting SSL along
the way.

  This code does not interact with the Linux IP stack at all --- so it
isn't exactly a TOE. You have to, at a minimum recompile applications.

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