[ttflee]

Reminds me of this 34C3 talk:

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9159-demystifying_network_cards

[ehntoo]

I heartily recommend this talk. It and the corresponding proof-of-concept Intel userland packet processing driver[1] went a long way for me in removing a lot of the magic from low-level network packet handling and device management in Linux.

[1] https://github.com/emmericp/ixy