Re: Proposal to remove driver for the Cabletron EA41x SCSI Ethernet adapter

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 16/03/2020 15:07, Michael van Elst wrote:
> is%netbsd.org@localhost (Ignatios Souvatzis) writes:
>
> > Ah, isn't scsi-ethernet something generic, so that the driver should be
> > independent of chipset?
>
> There is a SCSI Communication Device standard. Some people even used it
> to connect two or more computers in a cluster and there is an experimental
> RFC2143 for encapsulating IP over SCSI.
SAS would actually make quite a good network link layer for some 
applications. It has guaranteed per request latency, automatic link 
aggregation and network topology auto discovery. Although the link 
aggregation logic could do bad things to the frame arrival order.

Mike