[Simh] LAVC

[Mark Pizzolato]

On Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Tim Stark wrote:
> Thanks for many replies. I learned a lot about VAX clustering. I will use
> multicast Ethernet for clustering.  I have more one question. Is that possible to
> emulate HSC controllers with LAVC access?

When Matt Burke and I were discussing the CI concept, we picked IP 
Multicast as transport for the very specific reason that all modern host
systems will have natural user mode programming access to implement 
this functionality.  Attempting to create your own Ethernet multicast 
protocol (non-IP based) will have portability complexities on different 
platforms due to the fact different platforms have varying support (and 
potentially require privilege) to present and/or receive raw Ethernet 
frames to/from a LAN.

- Mark