Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:42:48 -0600 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> To: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com> Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IP over IEEE1394? Message-ID: <8E02CFA7-4F6C-11D7-885F-0003937E39E0@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10476C011@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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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
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