On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > People on clusters use their own special clustering hardware and > protocol stacks And their own operating systems... > _ANYWAYS_ because ipv4 is too general to serve their > performance needs. And I think that is a good thing rather than > a bad thing. People should use specialized solutions if that is the > best way to attack their problem. Reliable mulitcast is a very basic requirement from all the cluster softwares and IP is so widely used. I don't think every cluster implementation needs to write its own protocol stacks from scratch except those for rigorous network performance. If Linux can provide one, I bet a big number of people (at least for Linux cluster people) will use and take advantage of it, if it is written good enough. :) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not represent Intel Corp. Zhu Yi (Chuyee) GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) http://cn.geocities.com/chewie_chuyee/gpg.txt or $ gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 71C34820 1024D/71C34820 C939 2B0B FBCE 1D51 109A 55E5 8650 DB90 71C3 4820 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
