Re: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux

Jean-Michel Pittet (jmp@gandalf.engr.sgi.com)
Sun, 13 Feb 2000 22:11:55 -0800

> How exactly would STP interface differ from FC ?
> E.g. how STP would be better than FC ?

STP is a transport layer protocol which is independent of the lower
layer physical medium as opposed to FC which is ... well a physical
layer medium.

There is SCSI over FC and as Aman pointed out in his post, we are working
on SCSI over STP (Genroco demo'ed a proto at CERN last October).

Cheers
JM

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