On Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Tim Stark wrote: > Thanks for many replies. I learned a lot about VAX clustering. I will use > multicast Ethernet for clustering. I have more one question. Is that > possible to > emulate HSC controllers with LAVC access?
When Matt Burke and I were discussing the CI concept, we picked IP Multicast as transport for the very specific reason that all modern host systems will have natural user mode programming access to implement this functionality. Attempting to create your own Ethernet multicast protocol (non-IP based) will have portability complexities on different platforms due to the fact different platforms have varying support (and potentially require privilege) to present and/or receive raw Ethernet frames to/from a LAN. - Mark _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
