On Thursday 15 March 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:49:05 -0500
>
> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Specs at
http://www.freecom.com/objects/00006218.pdf
>>
>> It doesn't use a standard file sharing protocol.
>
> Even better than that, it says "No IP address so the drive is invisible
> to anyone outside of your network; your data is 100% secure."
>
> If it doesn't have an IP address, how in the world can anything
> communicate with it over an Ethernet link?
Very efficiently, since it doesn't have to use the IP stack, but you
have to be on the same subnet with it so it can work directly with MAC
addresses.
Well at least I got that right. I passed the mac address to the router.
> It would be interesting to run a nmap scan on the local network
where
> that thing is plugged in and see what pops up. Possibly nothing, if that
> quote is an accurate description.
I'd guess it is similar/identical to AoE which is included in recent
kernels, although I haven't heard much about it compared to iscsi.
Anne