Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:49:05 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Specs at http://www.freecom.com/objects/00006218.pdf
It doesn't use a standard file sharing protocol.
Even better than that, it says "No IP address so the drive is invisible to
anyone outside of your network; your data is 100% secure."
If it doesn't have an IP address, how in the world can anything communicate
with it over an Ethernet link?
Very efficiently, since it doesn't have to use the IP stack, but you
have to be on the same subnet with it so it can work directly with MAC
addresses.
It would be interesting to run a nmap scan on the local network where that
thing is plugged in and see what pops up. Possibly nothing, if that quote is
an accurate description.
I'd guess it is similar/identical to AoE which is included in recent
kernels, although I haven't heard much about it compared to iscsi.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
