ieee1394 ethernet

["Bruce" <bestb@sympatico.ca>]

I am looking to set up an ethernet connection using ieee1394
(Firewire/ILink) between two Debian sid machines, and haven't had much
luck.

I have the necessary drivers loaded (eth1394), and am able to bring up
(what I assume to be) the interface as an ethX device on both machines
with

 # ifconfig eth2 192.168.1.51 up

after which ifconfig reports:

eth2      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
00-00-4C-01-07-00-26-EA-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:192.168.1.51  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:2112 (2.0 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

but I'm not able to connect between the two machines.

I'd like to do this to transfer a lot (20Gb) of data (digital video files)
 faster than my 10baseT network. I assume this can be done somehow, but am
not sure what next to do.

Any suggestions about what I am missing? I'm guessing the solution is
similar to setting up a "direct" network connection between two machines,
but I haven't been able to find anything that explains how to do this.

Thanks,

B.