[e2e] my original reply to Sunay on TOEs

[Craig Partridge]

Got bounced from E2E (list membership problem at my end, now fixed). Sunay
was kind enough to forward a copy back to me for the list

Craig

E-mail: craig at aland.bbn.com or craig at bbn.com

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To: Sunay Tripathi <Sunay.Tripathi at eng.sun.com>
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        Erik Nordmark <nordmark at jurassic.eng.sun.com>,
        "H.K. Jerry Chu" <hkchu at jurassic.eng.sun.com>, mankin at psg.com,
        faber at ISI.EDU
Subject: Re: [e2e] Are you interested in TOEs and related issues (Resend) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Mar 2004 00:09:00 PST."
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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:07:35 -0500
From: Craig Partridge <craig at bbn.com>
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Well, the interesting thing is we went down this path in the early 1980s
and found that TOEs didn't work.

If I try to distill all that we learned in the 1980s into one question, I
come out with:

    In the 1980s we discovered that communicating with a TOE over a bus
    about a TCP connection was as expensive or more expensive than
    simply handling the TCP connection in the main processor.  What about
    today's TOE designs makes them different?

Craig

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