TCP/IP offload network interface device

摘要: An intelligent network interface card (INIC) or communication processing device (CPD) works with a host computer for data communication. The provides fast-path that avoids protocol most messages, greatly accelerating transfer and offloading time-intensive tasks from the CPU. retains fallback capability messages do not fit criteria, providing assistance such as validation even slow-path being selected either processing. A context connection is defined allows to move data, free of headers, directly destination source in host. can be passed back message by contains specialized hardware circuits are much faster at their specific than general purpose preferred embodiment includes trio pipelined processors devoted transmit, receive utility processing, full duplex four Fast Ethernet nodes.