Re: DEGPA-SA FC HBA

Well, my first reaction is:
Huh?

FC switches connect to FC HBAs. TCPIP over FC is a software mirage:
there is no TCPIP over FC HBA.

Some switches will act as routers or gateways to the non-FC network,
but they are usually Director class and expensive.

If you had two or three systems that needed private high bandwidth
network connectivity that could tolerate higher than Gigabit Ethernet
latency (FC can have some long wait times compared to Gigabit, but for
disk or tape you don't see it), say some Windows systems that don't
share storage but can do network backups, this might be worth trying.
It might be faster to use a storage array that would allow a disk-
based backup on the source system, dismount the backup disk from the
source system, and mount on the backup system and backup to tape from
there.

Most places Iv'e heard talk of TCPIP over FC turns in to some kind of
turf war between the network team and the system/storage team, so
nothing usefull happens.


Sean

On Jul 2, 5:32 pm, "Tom Linden" <tom-rem...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:50:14 -0700, <s...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DEGPA-SA is not a Fibre Channel HBA. It's a Gigabit Ethernet card. I
would expect to see EW or ES entries under SRM for it.

I see, this was part of a batch of what I thought were HBAs and that
excplains
it. Just curious, can the FC switch handle both ethernet and scsi traffic?



It looks like OpenVMS updates this firmware as part of the device
driver like HPUX does.
From update VMS73_LAN-V0400, dated 28-JUN-2003:

"The DEGPA firmware included in the device driver for the DEGPA PCI
Gigabit Ethernet NIC ..."

http://ftp.support.compaq.com.au/pub/ecoinfo/ecoinfo/667.htm

Sean

On Jul 2, 2:03 pm, "Tom Linden" <tom-rem...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry for the Alphabet soup.

I have two of these Compaq branded. I was going to upgrade the firmware
before deploying them and for this purpose I use a DS10L. SRM doesn't
seem to recognize them, but the do show up with SHOW CONFIG, but not
SHOW
DEV Is this a residual from a previous configuration?

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