[ntp:questions] Sub-millisecond NTP synchronization for local network

Ryan Malayter malayter at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 23:01:17 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com> wrote:
> "All" the 10G NICs and I suspect a decent number of the 1G NICs
> support TSO or TCP/Transport Segmentation Offload.  For the sender at
> least that can be considered a "poor man's jumbo frame."  Many (most?)
> of the curent 10G NICs also support LRO or Large Receive Offload.

I don't think you'll ever see baseline support for such features on
Linux. The kernel guys fundamentally disagree with TCP offload:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:TOE

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RPM



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