From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 5 14:55: 4 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 6529A37B405 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:55:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7157743F3F for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:55:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h25Mssjs091558; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:24:56 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) X-Authentication-Warning: cain.gsoft.com.au: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be [127.0.0.1] Subject: RE: IP over IEEE1394? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Cagle, John " "(ISS-Houston)" Cc: David Leimbach , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1046904890.66086.10.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 06 Mar 2003 09:24:50 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) 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 Thu, 2003-03-06 at 01:06, Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote: > 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? Firewire supports daisy chaining devices, and multiple masters. I have done laptop -> firewire hd -> desktop PC and used the drive on one machine and setup a network between the two of them :) fwcontrol -t shows bus topology. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message