ethernet - how low can I go?

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:50:06PM -0500, R. Luoma wrote:
> I thank everyone for the responses to my USB query.
> Several people had suggested using ethernet,
> so I now have another question.
> 
> Can I communicate via a cross-over cable between
> two computers at the ethernet packet level
> (specifically, without the TCP/UDP and IP lavels)
> using some set of linux drives?

Sure. AoE, for example, is a drive access protocol which is
literally ATA over Ethernet. 

http://aschauf.landshut.org/fh/linux/udp_vs_raw/ch01s03.html

will show you a bit about raw frames.

-dsr-


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