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I do remember a "smart NIC" making its rounds in the news a few years ago -- although "few" in this case might be >10. It was essentially a low-power machine in
by rzzzt 5y ago
I do remember a "smart NIC" making its rounds in the news a few years ago -- although "few" in this case might be >10. It was essentially a low-power machine in itself (with no Raspberry Pis in sight yet) that could finish an HTTP download or receive e-mails without waking up the host computer. But that's more high-level than the buffering/relaying of packets you are thinking of.
Edit: a bit weird, I wrote a very similar comment a year ago about this item. Now I feel slightly compelled to find the news source for it...
- rasz 5y agoasus "killer nic", almost pure marketing wankery with little benefit https://www.pcgamer.com/motherboards-with-killer-network-adapters-arent-worth-your-money/ https://www.pcgamer.com/motherboards-with-killer-network-ada...
- rzzzt 5y ago"Application offloading" was one of the terms I tried when searching for it, and got this as a result - not the same thing, but similar: https://www.academia.edu/10225597/Putting_it_on_the_NIC_A_case_study_on_application_offloading_to_a_network_interface_card_NIC https://www.academia.edu/10225597/Putting_it_on_the_NIC_A_ca...
- rasz 5y agohttps://pcper.com/2007/03/bigfoot-networks-killer-nic-k1-and-fna-bit-torrent-client-review/6/ https://pcper.com/2007/03/bigfoot-networks-killer-nic-k1-and...