The next phase of this project is choosing AoE or iSCSI. The debate on the relative merits of each protocol continues to rage on the Internet but in my particular case the criteria are pretty simple; which one performs better without causing excessive system load? Just from reading about the two protocols I am already leaning toward iSCSI for the simple fact that I can use all my TCP/IP management tools (routing, NAT, firewalling, etc.) on every iSCSI device. The only (potential) drawback is CPU load on the involved systems since it has to calculate TCP checksums for all those packets. Yes, there are many, many other advantages of one protocol over the other. No, they don’t matter to me in this scenario :-) So here we go!
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Coraid Odyssey: Part 5 (AoE vs iSCSI)
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Coraid Odyssey: Part 4 (ethernet bonding)
Thursday, April 10th, 2008On the plate today is getting ethernet interface bonding working to provide load balancing and failover on the dual onboard gigabit interfaces on our home-built Coraid.
This actually turns out to be much easier than expected…
Clear a Cisco 1605 router password
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008I recently had need to wipe the passwords on a Cisco 1605 router and thought I’d document the process here. It’s really pretty easy…