[rescue] octane question

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:41:53PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> Yeah, but if someone is protesting ethernet, what are they supposed to do 
>> when they want faster than 100Mbps between a combination of Mac OS X boxes,
>> SGIs, and NetBSD running monstrous NFS servers, and Solaris running database
>> servers?
> 
>   Faster than 100Mbps?  HIPPI or FC-AL.  At least there's some
> intelligence to the design!

I didn't know that you could use FC-AL for networking.  Hmm.  That could be
interesting.  Setup my file server to do routing, and have my main workstation
connected directly to it via FC-AL, plus FC-AL drive also...

Does anyone actually make HIPPI PCI cards?  Well, yep.  Apparently Esscom 
does.
 
>>Also, much as FDDI might be nice, when I get an O2 it is going to be ethernet
>>forever.  It will either have a firewire card in it's single PCI slot, or it
>>will have a controller for a fast harddisk array.
> 
>   It all depends on your priorities, I guess.  I do a lot of
> networking, so I like good network performance.



-- 
Joshua D. Boyd