I brought this up to one of the other network engineers and got this response:

"http://www.alacritech.com/html/SEN2100_Accelerator.shtml

These are worth every penny. Before The Exchange server got gigabit our intel 
nic's were killing us. After I put these in speed was not an issue." 

Phil Koster
Network Administrator
City of Grand Rapids
Direct: 616-456-3136
Helpdesk: 456-3999

-----Original Message-----
From: JMARTI05 at intersil.com [mailto:JMARTI05 at intersil.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:45 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] TNICs?

Have anyone done any testing with TOE Nics?  (TCIP Offload Engine) Basically a 
"beefier" hardware Nic that does the packet disassembly in the Nic w/ Hardware 
as opposed to waiting for the Software / OS.  We're looking at outfitting our 
new Media servers with Quad Copper Gigabit TOE Nics (PCIe/4) and I'm quite 
interested to see if the extra $1000 per nic is worth the cost from a speed 
perspective.  I read on a whitepaper on how 2 TOE Nics outperformed 4 gigabit 
nics in a pure data transmission / speed test, but it didn't look terribly 
reliable.  I'm planning on running several rounds of data performance testing 
of all my hardware when the new hardware arrives, but I'm wondering if anyone 
here has done any testing of their own?

-Jonathan

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