In article <20021029155526.A1438@zhwin.ch>,
	Christoph Kaegi <kgc@zhwin.ch> writes:
> Maybe it is my ignorance, but shouldn't offloading the checksum
> calculations to the card give some remarkable benefit?

It's a matter of the ratio between link speed and CPU power. Offloading
checksums on a Gigabit link gives you a benefit even with current x86 CPUs.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/