[jjrh]

> The reasons outlined above don't seem compelling when a commodity nic like mellanox do so much more already.

This is could be useful for people doing testing and benchmarking on network appliances.

[shaklee3]

Yeah, I suppose that's a valid use case. Things like ixia need to be fpga-based to measure absolute latency without any uncertainty. You cannot currently get that with enough flexibility in commodity cards.