[Info-vax] fibrechannel

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <jkka4v$95u$2 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>In article <00ABECB1.9931770D at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
>@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 
>
>> The FC card plug in like any other PCI.  The FC cables "plug" into those
>> and then to the fibre switch or other FC devices.  
>
>Without a switch, could I connect two machines and have some (all? what 
>determines which traffic goes where) traffic between them via the new 
>cards?

If the machine is a HSG or HP equivalent offering.  Think of the FC cards
as SCSI controllers with "light" cables.  There's only storage control and
data on the FC, not cluster comm.  You'd still need an ethernet connection
to provide a pathway to speak SCS.

-- 
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG

Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.