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Re: SCSI -Reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Buttles)
Sun Sep 15 23:38:50 1996
To: ALAN@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
CC: LINUX-NET@vger.rutgers.edu
From: "Wayne Buttles" <BUTTLES@inet.champlain.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 20:35:16 -4-1
Philip.Blundell@pobox.com wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is there any work going on to implement IP over SCSI?
Alan Cox wrote:
> We got Drew Eckhardt drunk enough to agree to put the
> support code in the NCR driver, but he's since been
> too busy to do so. I'm interesting in IP over SCSI for
> performance work (100baseT is too slow and full of
> funny cable capture effects). The NCR especially is
> very interesting as it ought to be possible to use this
> with the U-NET work for very fast message passing from
> user space with no syscall overhead.
SCSI has a very short cable length, right? So this would be
limited to computers in close proximity? It sounds like a great
idea for a super linux cluster. Is that what we are thinking?
Wayne
CC: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
