On Wednesday, 07/30/2003 at 08:10 ZE8, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Altmark said: > > won't eliminate TCP/IP comms; it just changes the latency and CPU > > consumption characteristics. Avoiding TCP/IP altogether would require > > application changes that would be specific to VM. Don't hold your breath > > on that. > > I don't see that there would be a lot to gain: if you're going to run > ;large numbers of Linux instances on a zBox, and they have to talk to > each other, you need a network of some kind. As I see it, your > alternatives are point-to-point like PPP or CTC, or multipoint like a > TCP/IP network or channels with lots of devices. > > TCP/IP is in place and works: unless there are significant savings, even > if someone writes the code, not may will implement it.
I agree. I don't see the benefit to bypassing TCP/IP unless you want to use a z/VM service that isn't available on the IP network (like z/VM's IUCV-based system services). Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
