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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Socket drivers for SCSI Date: 12 May 1997 18:48:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5l7om0$5nk@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <337329C5.A5678A08@isr.co.jp> <5kvoik$5hj@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3374492B.C490C5DE@isr.co.jp> <5l6iql$8k5@verdi.nethelp.no> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40798 sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) wrote: > Frankly, I don't understand why anybody would want to use SCSI for high > speed networking - it was never meant for that! If you really, *really* > need QOS in your networks today, buy ATM. Otherwise, 100 Mbps Ethernet > is certainly the way to go (simpler and less expensive - current best > price is around $340 for full duplex NIC + switch port). There's also FDDI. While it doesn't guarantee QOS, i think it will guarantee a some maximum propagation delay, since it's a dual token-ring. But i'm fairly clueless about the details either. I don't think SCSI is the way to go for this, however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)