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Re: SCSI -Reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Elliston)
Mon Sep 16 03:48:33 1996
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:55:34 +1000 (EST)
From: Ben Elliston <bje@compucat.com.au>
Reply-To: ben.elliston@compucat.com.au
To: Wayne Buttles <BUTTLES@inet.champlain.edu>
cc: ALAN@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, LINUX-NET@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9609152033.423ca038.CCC@INET.champlain.edu>
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Wayne Buttles wrote:
> Philip.Blundell@pobox.com wrote:
>
> > Is there any work going on to implement IP over SCSI?
> 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?
Yes. I've been working on this for a while. My code is currently bound
to my particular adapter (AHA1522), but I intend to make it talk
through the generic SCSI interface.
My driver is just a network interface, loaded with insmod and brought up
with ifconfig. The ARP implementation is also quite primitive right now
-- the fourth octet of theIP address is mapped directly to the SCSI ID
(ie. datagrams to 192.0.12.1 would be sent to SCSI ID 1).
I haven't mad much time to work on it recently, though. :-(
Cheers,
Ben.
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Ben Elliston E-mail: ben.elliston@compucat.com.au
Compucat Research Pty Limited WWW: <http://www.compucat.com.au>
Fyshwick ACT Australia
