Furthermore, the handling of iWARP specific protocol details is typically isolated from the TCP implementation, allowing rNICs to be used for both as RDMA offload and TCP offload (in support of traditional sockets based TCP/IP applications). The portion of the hardware implementation used for implementing the TCP protocol is known as the TCP Offload Engine (TOE).
The handling of iWARP specific protocol details is typically isolated from the TCP implementation, enabling rNICs to be used for both RDMA offload and TCP offload (in support of traditional sockets based TCP/IP applications). The portion of the hardware implementation dedicated to implementing the TCP protocol is known as the TCP Offload Engine (TOE).