[H-GEN] Improving UDP performance on firewall?

[Willie Yeo]

Thanks, those NICs are great for taking some load of the CPU. I guess it depends on how you look at it.

>Willy is talking about a 'feature' called tcp-stack offloading. It's a
>pile of crap, a generally rotten idea. There are some things that you
>can offload to the NIC nicely [checksumming, etc] but a whole tcp
>stack? Pure evil. Avoid.

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