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- From: ajs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Alan Silverstein)
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:50:42 GMT
- Subject: Re: How to server clients over more than one LAN?
- Message-ID: <7371517@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- > I would be interested in seeing (ahem.. unofficial) comments from HP
- > people concerning possible enhancement of the cluster code to support
- > multiple lan cards....
-
- OK, this is as unofficial as you can get. :-)
-
- HP-UX Diskless is a proprietary protocol, not a multi-vendor standard,
- for various and sundry reasons (many historical). As such it has some
- advantages and some disadvantages compared to, say, NFS. (See an
- earlier but concurrent discussion in this same newsgroup.) One of
- Diskless's disadvantages is the abovementioned restriction. I wouldn't
- bet on it going away... I'm not a kernel guru but I think it's buried
- in the design.
-
- This disadvantage could hypothetically be one reason for moving away
- from Diskless to more industry-standard protocols.
-
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