From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 5 16:42:53 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 4617937B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:42:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C410343FBF for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:42:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leimy2k@mac.com) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h260gp8I003067 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:42:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([67.33.228.33]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HBAXZF00.J0R; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:42:51 -0800 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:42:48 -0600 Subject: Re: IP over IEEE1394? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: To: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" From: David Leimbach In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <8E02CFA7-4F6C-11D7-885F-0003937E39E0@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) 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 Well there are firewire hubs and the machines I typically do this on are Macs which generally have 2 firewire ports... you can make a small ring network that way. Dave On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 08:36 AM, 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? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David Leimbach [mailto:leimy2k@mac.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:32 AM >> To: Christopher Fowler >> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: IP over IEEE1394? >> >> >> True... I guess I didn't state my case clearly enough that I >> think IP >> over firewire >> is in itself a good thing for clusters. >> >> ppp connections with it are fine too but not very useful for >> my line of >> work >> which is parallel computing middleware :) >> >> Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message