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wmf
on Aug 27, 2021
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Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x...
The LX2160A chip is indeed designed for router/firewall/VPN type appliances and this board is repurposing it (poorly) as a "workstation".
drewg123
on Aug 27, 2021
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I had to look at this for an unrelated project, and its clear that chipset is for router/firewall use. The endstation features of the chip don't include very basic offloads like TSO.
NewJazz
on Aug 27, 2021
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For anyone else who does not know what TSO stands for, it is TCP segmentation offload.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_send_offload
rbanffy
on Aug 27, 2021
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The only TSO that came to my mind was IBM's Time Sharing Option, which is part of z/OS and has been part of their mainframe OSs since the 360.
It was obviously a poor match for the context ;-)
rbanffy
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I'm all in for misusing server chips to build workstations, but the feature match is not great here.
NewJazz
on Aug 27, 2021
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While the board is advertising itself as a workstation, wouldn't it be easy to use it as a server?
wmf
on Aug 27, 2021
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If you scroll down on the page they sell a server that has two Honeycombs in 1U.
rbanffy
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It looks like a good match for a small server, better than a workstation.
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