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What is TCP offload engine?

Definition 7.5 Networks, Hardware and Trading Infrastructure · Chapter 7 — Programmable Hardware II: Trading Designs

A TCP offload engine implements the TCP protocol (sequence numbers, acknowledgements, retransmission) in a network card’s hardware, so that the card can send and receive on a TCP connection without the host.

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