On Thursday 15 March 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > Well at least I got that right. I passed the mac address to the router. > > 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. > Anne
