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Subject: RE: IP over IEEE1394?
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:36:57 -0600
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From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com>
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Wouldn't you need a firewire switch to do a cluster of more than 2
nodes?  Or are you thinking of using multiple firewire interfaces per
node?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Leimbach [mailto:leimy2k@mac.com]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:32 AM
> To: Christopher Fowler
> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: IP over IEEE1394?
>=20
>=20
> True... I guess I didn't state my case clearly enough that I=20
> think IP =20
> over firewire
> is in itself a good thing for clusters.
>=20
> ppp connections with it are fine too but not very useful for=20
> my line of =20
> work
> which is parallel computing middleware :)
>=20
> Dave

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