yeah, but sometimes the calculations they do are wrong.
Very annoying when it happens, used to be common on the chipsets in the TB16 Thunderbolt docks from Dell... if you knew to turn off the offloading the ethernet worked otherwise it was slower than wifi..
Many NICs have embedded ARM or other CPU cores (sometimes multiple) to do offloading, and the OS NIC driver contains code to be run on them.
yeah, but sometimes the calculations they do are wrong.
Very annoying when it happens, used to be common on the chipsets in the TB16 Thunderbolt docks from Dell... if you knew to turn off the offloading the ethernet worked otherwise it was slower than wifi..
Realtek RTL8153 iirc.