From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 12:59:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 12:59:53 -0400 Received: from tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil ([204.222.179.33]:8034 "EHLO tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 12:59:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:59:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Jesse Pollard Message-Id: <200205101659.LAA30191@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> To: davem@redhat.com, pmanuel@myrealbox.com Subject: Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver In-Reply-To: <20020510.080405.124002004.davem@redhat.com> Cc: chen_xiangping@emc.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: [XMailTool v3.1.2b] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "David S. Miller" : > From: "Pedro M. Rodrigues" > Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:11:55 +0200 > > Actually there is. Think iSCSI. Have a look at this article at > LinuxJournal - http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4896 . > > The Linux networking stack need have no hand in any of the IPv4 done > by iSCSI, it can live entirely in the cards firmware and Linux need > not know what the transport looks like at all. > - Depends on what kind of authentication you also need. I haven't seen anything on that. So far as I know (and that is limited right now) iSCSI doesn't perform any kind of authentication beyond IP number. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil Any opinions expressed are solely my own.