I thought this was an extreme linux list

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Nate Downes wrote:

> William Emmanuel S. Yu wrote:
> >
> > >  > How possible would it be to set up a Linux hypercube over a firewire
> > >  > network?
> > >
> > i am a newbie when it comes to other networking protocol aside from atm
> > and ethernet. i thought that firewire was ieee640 or something that is the
> > bus for the gameboy. are there nics that support firewire?
>
> No, Firewire is IEEE1394, and it was originally designed as a
> replacement for SCSI by Apple.  It, like SCSI, can be used as a network
> interface.  And no, the gameboy isn't firewire.
>
> No NIC cards support IEEE1394, since it is designed to be built into a
> motherboard.
> >

I wouldn't call SCSI a network interface.  It's really a channel (I/O)
interface.  Calling it a network interface implies that there are SCSI switches
and a more robust addressing scheme instead of the 7 addresses that SCSI
supports.   Network interfaces are such things as Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, etc.