Wouldn't Modbus be a more suitable framework for out-of-band management? It's normally used over RS-485 "networks" - a single pair multi-drop configuration with a single master. It would have far lower overhead than TCP/IP. You might start at www.modbus.org/tech.php .
Cheers, Kevin. On 4 June 2013 08:04, David Lyon <david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Chris Barnes <chris.p.bar...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > This one might be impossible but does anyone have any clues for running > > TCP/IP over the I2C bus? > > > > I have a few Raspberry PIs and I'd like to create an Out Of Band network > on > > them by linking them all by I2C and then running TCP/IP over it. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > It's interesting that I2C is a actually a multi-master master/slave system. > > So there doesn't appear any theoretical reason as to why it wouldn't work. > > > Let us know the results if you get it working. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
