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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Socket drivers for SCSI
Date: 9 May 1997 17:57:40 GMT
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Jason Marshall <marshall@isr.co.jp> wrote:
> A long time ago on a free Unix far far away, some folks bantered about
> plugging two or more machines together on the same SCSI chain, and
> thereby achieving networking of great speed. And I was wondering if
> FreeBSD had such a thing (I am lacking the experience to code such a
> beast myself, though I am a programmer).
One of the fathers of {386,Free}BSD's SCSI code, Peter Dufault, once
wrote me that he attempted to implement this idea. I'm not sure
whether he ever got it to success. The biggest point, transfer speed,
is now probably already moot due to the invention of 100 Mbit/s
ethernet technology. (And i think you can use a crossover cable to
connect just two machines, saving the costs of the hub.)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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