[SunRescue] Re: Rescue digest, Vol 1 #117 - 9 msgs

[Michael Thompson]

They did. It's called ONC. The Sun/Force Computers 1E boards have the node
number in the NVRAM and will boot via TCP/IP across the VMEbus backplane.

There is also two independant TCP/IP over a backplane efforts. One on VMEbus
called BusNet http://www.vita.com, and on CompactPCI.

>I always wondered why Sun didn't write a driver to run IP over the VME bus
>and release the SparcCluster 1 as a slew of 4/600 boards in one box.
>Using SS10's and a 10mbps switch wasn't nearly as nice of an approach, and
>a shared 25MB/sec VME bus would have been faster than ethernet even with
>overhead (a token-passing arrangement might have been the best here to
>saturate the bus).


Michael Thompson
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