is in itself a good thing for clusters.
ppp connections with it are fine too but not very useful for my line of work
which is parallel computing middleware :)
Dave On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 08:30 AM, Christopher Fowler wrote:
The beauty of ppp is that you have support in the kernel to do it. Else, you are stuck to writing some type of interface driver for the kernel. In the short term, this may not be a workable solution.
On a side note,
I read an article on /. about using firewire + MinDV for backup. I guess I can get some use out of my camera after all.
Chris
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:21, David Leimbach wrote:Yeah... point to point connections are interesting and powerful but IP would be better if we could get it.
I wish I knew more about how to implement it. :)
Dave On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 08:23 AM, Christopher Fowler wrote:
This may not be a workable solution, but if you can get 2 programs to send data across the firewire to one another, you could use pppd through that tunnel.
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 08:25, David Leimbach wrote:Interesting... I didn't even know we had Ethernet over firewire :).
Mac OS X and Windows XP both have IP over firewire either working or in the works and somewhat usable. The only one I can claim any experience with is Mac OS X. It's somewhat flaky though and you get unreliable spikes in some basic performance tests I have done with it.
It would be a really interesting value added feature for FreeBSD 5.x and could potentially open FBSD up even more to the "cluster" market which is somewhere its not as proliferated as linux.
With the advent of firewire2 on the horizon it may be even more impressive.
I believe there is even an Oracle product for linux which can cluster
databases
over firewire now. [I don't know if its IP though]
Dave On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 01:43 AM, Rossam Souza Silva wrote:
Hi, there is some plan to port NetBSD's implementation of IP over Firewire? I know, we have "Ethernet over Firewire", but like the Linux one, isn't a standard...
Just curious.
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