Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:22:37 +1000 From: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI network Message-ID: <1206940957.30698.11.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20080331033417.GH28690@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20080329131542.H80112@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080331033417.GH28690@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 22:34 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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 :) > I'd agree with that 100%- do the bandwidth math (not to mention the ease of setup): gigabit each way compared to a max of 320mb (I could be wrong on the exact figures, but the gigabit is still faster). Setup a small private network between the machines in question and everything would be happy.
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