I know, but I found a site about it (http://www.linux1394.org/eth1394.php) which states it isn't very stable. However, I was wondering if anyone knows how stable it is, what is the current issues are, etc. The thing is I have a laptop which has FireWire and I would like fast transferring from it to my main computer. My laptop doesn't have a gigabit connection... yet ;) - Jeroen On Monday 02 August 2004 08:27 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > J.L. Coenders wrote: > > Hi, > > Does any of you have experience with TCP/IP over FireWire? > > I am thinking about buying a firewire card for my desktop to connect it > > to my laptop to have a fast connection. > > Firewire is not a network media, although you could do iSCSI over it > (SCSI tunneled through TCP). You'd be better off using gigabit LAN > cards and a CAT5e or CAT6 MDIX cable. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Squawk! Pieces of Seven! Pieces of Seven! Parity Error! - > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
