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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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