Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 09:39:42 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: Matthew SWINBOURNE <m.swinbourne@its.uq.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD Clustering List <freeBSD-Cluster@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Introduction & RE: Clustering with Freebsd Message-ID: <4283083E.9000005@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <5B5BBC864783B7439264DD5FF664F2A969F31D@jemima.soe.uq.edu.au> References: <5B5BBC864783B7439264DD5FF664F2A969F31D@jemima.soe.uq.edu.au>
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Matthew SWINBOURNE wrote: >Hi All, > >Something to think about along these lines are TCP Off-Loader (TOE) >cards. If you are seriously looking at ATA over ethernet or something >similar on any production scale, then these cards are a life saver. >Reduce the CPU overhead of running storage via TCP/IP to almost >negligable. > > > > > As I understand, this is the whole point of ATA over Ethernet (vs iSCSI): it doesn't actually use TCP/IP, it runs on raw ethernet (and thus isn't routeable but that's probably more of a feature than a bug).
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