Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 04, 2006 12:08 AM
Nobody uses just plain Ethernet. Most People use TCP/IP on top of ethernet, iSCSI does. Other protocols that run over ethernet include AppleTalk and IPX. AoE dumps the TCP/IP overhead by using its own protocol and identifies network nodes by MAC address instead of by TCP/IP addresses.
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Re:Speed gain?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 04, 2006 12:08 AM#