Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:55:10 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Network Over Backplane PCI Bus Message-ID: <20050826065510.GH30465@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <F70ADB2B48B823162C610276@[10.254.254.253]> References: <F70ADB2B48B823162C610276@[10.254.254.253]>
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Jason C. Wells wrote this message on Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 16:43 -0700:
> Is there a way to run TCP/IP with the PCI bus as a network interface?
You'd have to write your own driver to do it...
> I am installing FreeBSD on CompactPCI processor boards. It would be really
> slick if I could network the boards via the PCI backplane.
Isn't there usually a single board acting as master, and all the other
boards are children of it? There has to be some sort of arbitrator...
You could possibly have a master/slave relationship, where the slaves
all present a pci device interface with memory buffer to stick received
packets, and then the master provides a way to program the slaves
where to stick packets in it's memory buffer for transmitted packets..
I've never worked with CompactPCI, so take the above with a grain of
salt..
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