From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Steinmann Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:10:20 +0200 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] using ethernet instead of TCP In-Reply-To: <443AADE6.30408@oracle.com> References: <443AADE6.30408@oracle.com> Message-ID: <443F912C.3010500@calivia.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com Zach Brown wrote: > James Harper wrote: > >> Has anyone considered having the option of using Ethernet instead of TCP >> for inter-node communications? >> > > TIPC might also be interesting. > > http://tipc.sourceforge.net/ > > - z > TIPC not being IP would solve security issues with the currently IP-based inter-node connections as well. TIPC is for sure an interesting option for loosely connected nodes that do not share the same security realm (where the cluster traffic would have to run over an IP-based firewall). -- mike