It's called BusNet. Look at http://www.vita.com/vso/stds.html


At 10:37 AM 12/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
>This is an interesting discussion that you two have going on here. And
this is
>the reason why the company woke up an idea for the mvme147 board, and its
>cousins. Now about that reference of yours for "standard for IP over the
VMEbus
>backplane". Can you point me in that direction.?That is where could I
obtain a
>copy.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: port-mvme68k-owner@netbsd.org
>> [mailto:port-mvme68k-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Steve Woodford
>> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 10:16 AM
>> To: Al B. Snell
>> Cc: port-mvme68k@netbsd.org
>> Subject: Re: VMEBus for network appliances
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Al B. Snell wrote:
>>
>> > This is the coolest I've seen yet:
>> >
>> > http://www.general-micro-systems.com/v56.html
>>
>> That *is* a nice board. It's a bit too different to the motorola mvme68k
>> boards for NetBSD/mvme68k to support it. However, if someone wants to send
>> me one, I could get a new port: "NetBSD/gmsvme68k" running on it within a
>> month or two... ;-)  (That's the theory anyway; in reality, I simply can't
>> spare the time now or for the foreseeable future).
>>
>> > What's the deal with stuff wired to the P2 socket? How do you get the
SCSI
>> > bus and the serial ports on that thing? Is that what a "transition
>> > board" is for?
>>
>> Looks like it uses the same P2 pinout as Motorola's MVME712 rear
>> transition module. That's a board which connects to the back of the VMEbus
>> P2 connector and provides a panel with scsi, aui, printer and serial
>> ports.
>>
>> > It'd be fairly neat for me to have a load of CPU cards on a backplane
>> > communicating TCP/IP over said backplane... that'd make a great
>> > extensible falloverable cluster.
>>
>> Indeed, but VME devices usually command a premium price. I suspect the
>> "V56" would be in the $4000-$6000 range if GMS are competing with
>> motorola's offerings. Still,
>>
>> > Just imagine: as an Internet appliance (as made by www.cobalt.com),
>> > something where you can add "disk cards" (CPU, RAM, hard disk, serving
NFS
>> > over the backplane), "CPU cards" (small disk for OS+swap) and "network
>> > cards" (routers) at will... mix and match... Mmmmm....
>>
>> Yup, that's exactly what VME is designed/used for. There is already a
>> standard for IP over the VMEbus backplane, and implementing it for NetBSD
>> is somewhere in my work queue, though not near the top. 8-)
>>
>> Cheers, Steve
>>
>>
>>
>
>

Michael Thompson
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