From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 5 10: 1:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCE637B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F075A43F75 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:01:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h25I1a3U005548; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:01:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h25I1YvI005544; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:01:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:01:34 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: David Leimbach Cc: Rossam Souza Silva , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP over IEEE1394? Message-ID: <20030305190134.H5349@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from leimy2k@mac.com on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:25:20AM -0600 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.8-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:25:20AM -0600, David Leimbach wrote: > Interesting... I didn't even know we had Ethernet over firewire :). > > Mac OS X and Windows XP both have IP over firewire either working or > in the works and somewhat usable. The only one I can claim any > experience > with is Mac OS X. It's somewhat flaky though and you get unreliable > spikes > in some basic performance tests I have done with it. > > It would be a really interesting value added feature for FreeBSD 5.x > and could potentially open FBSD up even more to the "cluster" market > which is somewhere its not as proliferated as linux. > > With the advent of firewire2 on the horizon it may be even more > impressive. The interconnect is just 10% of the whole cluster story. Firewire is one possibility, but Fibrechannel you could do today if you wanted to. We have Fibrechannel support in the Qlogic isp(4) driver (thanks Matt!) today. W/ -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@freebie.xs4all.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message