I hadn't thought of this.... Interesting :)
Dave
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 08:41 AM, Christopher Fowler wrote:
You can run IP via PPP. PPPD is used all the time for VPN. I've got 2
networks that are combined via PPPD over a tunnel because they are both
on private networks and have only 1 public IP.
However, The overhead could get you. I'm not sure you want to go down
the writer of creating another interface. Maybe you could use the SLIP
interface and capture that IP stuff and send across.
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:32, David Leimbach wrote:
True... I guess I didn't state my case clearly enough that I think IP
over firewire
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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