Dean Hamstead <d...@fragfest.com.au> writes:
>> From what I hear they are proprietary and their technology is not
>> routable. I prefer to stick to an open standard, preferably something which
>> comes as part of CentOS 5.
>
> ATAoE is l2 protocol so no its not routable
...unless you package it in MPLS, or L2TP, or some other technology designed
to route layer 2 packets; various people I know who use production ATAoE swear
by this strategy.
> but ATAoE is a published standard and the drivers are in the kernel since
> 2.6.11.
*nod* I won't offer an opinion on ATAoE myself, but I can say that concerns
about the protocol compared to iSCSI are less than compelling to me.
Now, having only a single vendor, that might worry a body.
Daniel
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