Re: ieee1394 ethernet
To add my bit to the matter:
When setting up a friend's Win XP machine, I stumbled across the fact that
IEEE1394 can actually be used in networking. So obviously this applies to all
OSes as well.
Never tried it yet though.
On 20-Jan-2004 Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:38:17AM -0500, Bruce wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:54:47AM -0500, Bruce wrote:
>> > > I am looking to set up an ethernet connection using ieee1394
>> > > (Firewire/ILink) between two Debian sid machines, and haven't had much
>> > > luck.
>>
>> > Right. Firewire is not ethernet.
>>
>> I apologize if I am not using the correct terminology. However, to quote
>> the "IEEE 1394 for Linux" page at
>> http://www.linux1394.org/eth1394.html:
>>
>> "When loaded, along with a host controller, you can configure the ethX
>> (e.g., eth0, eth1, eth2) interfaces the same as you would for a normal
>> ethernet interface. One ethernet interface is configured for each
>> IEEE-1394 host configured."
>>
>> Based on the above it appeared to me reasonable to assume that, once I
>> loaded the correct modules (eth1394), I could configure and use the
>> firewire device, using ethX, in much the same way as a real ethernet
>> device. Which, it turns out, I could.
>
> Wow. I'll be damned. Learn something new everyday.
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