Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:01:34 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> Cc: Rossam Souza Silva <rss@cin.ufpe.br>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP over IEEE1394? Message-ID: <20030305190134.H5349@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <E974F694-4F0D-11D7-8E31-0003937E39E0@mac.com>; from leimy2k@mac.com on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:25:20AM -0600 References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303050437020.24147-100000@buique.cin.ufpe.br> <E974F694-4F0D-11D7-8E31-0003937E39E0@mac.com>
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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
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