Lets cover some basic terminologies before we dig into Receive Side Scaling and Receive Packet Steering. Network Interface Card: A network interface controller (NIC) (also known as a network interface card, network adapter) is an electronic device that connects a computer to a computer network/ Modern NIC usually comes up with speed of 1-10Gbps. #Find your NIC speed [root@machine1 ~]# ethtool eth0
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