gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (10/05/87)
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Greg Chesson's work on a protocol
engine that can process 100 Mbit FDDI packets in real time, implementing
reliable connections and datagrams, and internetwork routing, in hardware.
Greg works for Silicon Graphics but the protocols and hardware involved
are non-proprietary and I believe there is a multivendor group working
on implementing his design.
See his paper, "Protocol Engine Design" in the Usenix conference
proceedings from summer 1987.
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