On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) < opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> > From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 3:45 PM > > > > I would suggest if you're doing a crossover between systems, you use > > infiniband rather than ethernet. You can eBay a 40Gb IB card for under > > $300. Quite frankly the performance issues should become almost a non- > > factor at that point. > > I like that idea too - but I thought IB couldn't do crossover. I thought > a switch is required? > > Crossover should be fine as long as you have a subnet manager on one of the hosts. Now you're going to ask me where you can get a subnet manager for illumos/solaris/whatever, and I'm going to have to plead the fifth because I haven't looked into it. --Tim
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