by >Checksum Offloading
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>In solaris 2.6 Answer book It is mentioned that the TCP/IP protocol
>stack has been enhanced to support two new features zero copy and TCP
>checksum offload. This is mentioned in "Transport Layer Interfaces
>Programming guide - Advanced Topics" section, but not much information
>provided.
of the answerbook, you will see:
Support for hardware checksum has been added as well. Performance is
improved by avoiding software computation of the checksum, off-loading
the work to a network adapter that supports it. This is currently only
supported on the SunATM(TM) card.
I don't see mention in any later Solaris release notes of additional
drivers being supported now, but I wouldn't be surprised if support
was added for Sun's high-end adapters, such as gigabit ethernet.
If Wake On LAN were supported, it would be integrated with the PowerQuote:>Wake On LAN
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>Solaris 2.6 supports Power management features. I am assuming that this
>has some relationship with Wake On LAN feature supported by the adapter.
>Is my assumption correct ?
management features, but just because a system has power management
features does not mean it supports Wake On LAN.
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