moin, moin,
thanks for all of the info. As I say this is for someone else at work.
I've been keeping him up to date with what I'm hearing.
I'll be diving more into this as we implement whatever he decides upon :).
danke,
der.hans
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Jonny B. wrote:
> > > Are you going to be using fibre channel for both scsi and ip?
> >
> > I'm not certain. I'm hunting down documentation for the guy planning it
> > since I'm already talking to vendors.
> >
> > I believe we will end up using both, but I don't know that much about
> > fibre channel.
> >
>
> Well, besides the Interphase driver that has support for both SCSI and IP
> (and doesn't work), I think the other people who are writing drivers for
> FC HBAs are holding off on IP. Here's Matt Jacobs thoughts on the
> subject:
>
> "In my opinion IP over FibreChannel is, in general, not worth the effort
> unless you have a cable infrastructure that requires it. Gigabit ethernet
> is a fine technology to solve this kind of problem. The amount of grief
> for an IP stack over FC until FC of substantially higher speeds, is
> likely to guarantee an interesting time of things."
>
> We use FC specifically for a storage interface under Linux and use
> ethernet for our networking activities. Once upon a time,
> we got IP and SCSI running over fibre channel on SGI O2s. We still found
> ourselves sticking to ethernet (which we also had hooked up) for network
> transactions (for the most part) and using FC for storage.
>
> Best of Luck,
> brassow
>
> P.S. The points of contact for the specific drivers are posted on the GFS
> HW recommendation page. If you're thinking about helping out with
> drivers, I'm sure they'd love to hear from you.
>
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