Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:34:17 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI network Message-ID: <20080331033417.GH28690@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20080329131542.H80112@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20080329131542.H80112@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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In the last episode (Mar 29), Wojciech Puchar said: > i have few Ultra160 SCSI controllers and two Ultra40, cables and few > machines that needs fast interconnect. i could use one gigabit card on each > machine+switch, but i already have it! > > can i make external SCSI bus through all machines and use it to transmit IP > packets? > > they are all adaptec (ahc driver) controllers - manual says it can be > target as well as initiator I've never seen a SCSI IP implementation, but I guess it's theoretically possible. Since SCSI uses a shared bus, though, the best you could get would be a half-duplex network. Gigabit NICs and a cheap unmanaged switch will work much better :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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