Honored Contributor
Honored ContributorI've wondered how well a recent linux (etc) will get on talking to a minimal TCP implementation - ie one that has no options, doesn't do slow start, acks every packet, fixed window size etc.
If the other end of the connection is local, then you probably won't have any real issues - since a few extra packets won't matter and none get discarded so retries don't really ever happen. Actually, if you are pushing enough data through the connections to need to consider offload, can you actually afford to the time to recover from packet loss? On a working local network you don't lose packets at all. In which case sending UDP (much simpler to offload) might be an option.
