Current abstract looks like:
---- This session will start with description of how a basic Network Interface Card(NIC) operates and lead into NIC feature evolution. The discussion will delve into several NIC features starting from fundamental packet IO in the early days, leading to incremental offloading from the host of whole or parts of packet processing computation into the NIC hardware from the 1990s to current time. Justification for the different offloads will be explained.
Linux control and kernel APIs will be used to illustrate the different functionality. When sensible the relationship of a feature that a NIC handles will be related to specific IETF activity (eg transport, security, nvo3, etc) ---
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cheers, jamal