Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-02 Thread Glen Turner
On 03/06/2013, at 10:15 AM, Chris Barnes wrote: > Wow thanks for that Glen. > > Stacks of useful info. Given me a bit more to think about. Personally, if I were building a cluster of RPis I'd use the serial console for remote management. The main reason for that is that crash information gets p

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-02 Thread Chris Barnes
Wow thanks for that Glen. Stacks of useful info. Given me a bit more to think about. I wasnt intending to run the PIs too far apart. At the moment i have them in cases but i was hoping to throw them into an enclosure like a blade system (minus the hot-swapability) or like the Pi clusters you see

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-02 Thread Glen Turner
On 02/06/2013, at 9:31 AM, Chris Barnes wrote: > yeah. > > come to think of it. the whole master/slave process of I2C would probably > make it terribly difficult to implement tcp/ip since each device would have > to be able to switch from slave to master to be able to send broadcasts > like arp

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-02 Thread Jeremy Visser
On 02/06/13 21:52, Chris Barnes wrote: > Token ring would work. > > Now, i wonder if anyone has already implemented token ring over i2c > under linux. Just for clarity, I meant ‘token ring *type* approach’, not token ring itself. Perhaps ‘round robin’ would have been clearer. -- SLUG - Sydney L

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-02 Thread Chris Barnes
Token ring would work. Now, i wonder if anyone has already implemented token ring over i2c under linux. On 02/06/13 10:01, Chris Barnes wrote: > come to think of it. the whole master/slave process of I2C would probably > make it terribly difficult to implement tcp/ip since each device would have

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-02 Thread Jeremy Visser
On 02/06/13 10:01, Chris Barnes wrote: > come to think of it. the whole master/slave process of I2C would probably > make it terribly difficult to implement tcp/ip since each device would have > to be able to switch from slave to master to be able to send broadcasts > like arp requests, netbios nam