[SunRescue] What exactly is a Sun 4/25 ?

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Nicewonger [mailto:twmaster at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 10:44 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] What exactly is a Sun 4/25 ?
> 
> 
> > Ya know, I'm pretty sure that Linux has some drivers to run 
> TCP/IP over
> > SCSI...  I wonder if you could cluster that way.  It 
> wouldn't be too fast,
> > and most of my machines have only 1 SCSI port, so it would 
> be hard to
> chain
> > more than 2 of them together.  Hmm....
> 
> Actually the SCSI TCP/IP connection would be nice and fast, 
> would work great
> for a cluster, the box <elc> wouldn't know what to do with 
> it. George Adkins
> seems to know a lot about the subject of TPC/IP over SCSI.

How do you figure?  SCSI bus on an ELC is probably 5MB/sec, not even as fast
as 100Mbit ethernet, although quite a bit faster than the onboard 10Mbit.  I
don't know what kind of latency you'd have over the SCSI bus.
	Greg