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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: DMA transfers between machines
- Message-ID: <vatd7gk@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:35:10 GMT
- References: <35204@adm.brl.mil>
- Sender: news@zola.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <35204@adm.brl.mil> beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (Ralf Beyer DLR) writes:
- | we would like to DMA transfer data from a SGI machine to another
- | machine (DEC LSI11). Both machines are connected by Ethernet and
- | have Ethernet controllers.
- |
- | On the LSI11 there is no room for the overhead required by TCP/IP
- | or UDP. The LSI11 initiates a DMA request (memory address, block
- | size etc.) and expects the SGI machine to listen and to respond
- | with a DMA transfer.
- |
- | QUESTION: What is to do or how must the SGI machine be configured
- | to be able to receive the DMA request via the Ethernet
- | and then in turn make the DMA transfer ?
-
- As stated, it sounds impossible. You could certainly write
- some simple protocol and try it out, using raw sockets on the
- SGI side (see man 7 raw), but then you still have to add
- all kinds of error checking and retry stuff if you want it at
- all reliable...
-
- Your initial assumption that the LSI11 has no room for tcp
- may well be wrong. There were several very small TCP implementations
- done for systems based on the LSI 11 chip set several years
- ago, as I recall (of course, your particular system may already
- be maxed out).
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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