I have now officially become addicted to the Jacuzzi at the Pro Club in Redmond. I mean what is better than an ice water while watching TV in a Jacuzzi after a workout? Thats right, there is nothing better. Anyways onto the technical side of my blog....
Today I learnt about an awesome new technology that is coming to the networking world - TCP Offload Engine (TOE). This technology will allow much of the handling of TCP packets to be done in hardware instead of software. Currently only small operations are supported in hardware such as packet checksum calculation. With this new offload engine you will see a small throughput increase but a huge savings on CPU cycles. Check out a description here: http://www.nwfusion.com/details/653.html