RFCs of Interest That Are Not Required for TCP Chimney-Capable NICs

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[The TCP chimney offload feature is deprecated and should not be used.]

The following RFCs are of interest but are not required for TCP chimney-capable NICs:

  • RFC 792--Internet Control Message Protocol, September 1981

  • RFC 826--An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol

  • RFC 919--Broadcasting Internet Datagrams, October 1984

  • RFC 922--Broadcasting Internet Datagrams in the Presence of Subnets, October 1984

  • RFC 950--Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure, August 1985

  • RFC 1112--Host Extensions for IP Multicasting, August 1989

  • RFC 1256--ICMP Router Discovery Messages, September 1991

  • RFC 1518--An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDR, September 1993

  • RFC 1546--Host Anycasting Service, November 1993 (Informational)

  • RFC 1809--Using the Flow Label Field in IPv6, June 1995 (Informational)

  • RFC 1812--Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers, June 1995

  • RFC 1981--Path MTU Discovery for IP Version 6, August 1996

  • RFC 2096--IP Forwarding Table MIB, January 1997

  • RFC 2113--IP Router Alert Option, February 1997

  • RFC 2236--Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2, November 1997 (see RFC 3376 too)

  • RFC 2292--Advanced Sockets API for IPv6, February 1998 (Informational)

  • RFC 2365--Administratively Scoped IP Multicast, July 1998 (Best Current Practice)

  • RFC 2390--Inverse Address Resolution Protocol, September 1998

  • RFC 2402--IP Authentication Header, November 1998

  • RFC 2406--IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP), November 1998

  • RFC 2462--IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, December 1998

  • RFC 2463--Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification, December 1998

  • RFC 2464--Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks, December 1998

  • RFC 2465--Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group, December 1998

  • RFC 2466--Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group, December 1998

  • RFC 2526--Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses, March 1999

  • RFC 2710--Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6, October 1999

  • RFC 2932--IPv4 Multicast Routing MIB, October 2000

  • RFC 2933--Internet Group Management Protocol MIB, October 2000

  • RFC 3019--IP Version 6 Management Information Base for The Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol, January 2001

  • RFC 3041--Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6, January 2001

  • RFC 3260--New Terminology and Clarifications for Diffserv, April 2002 (Informational)

  • RFC 3376--Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3, October 2002

  • RFC 3484--Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

  • RFC 3493--Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6, March 1999 (Informational)

  • Draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal-07.txt, Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses