J.L. Coenders wrote:
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 ;)
Bottom post, please.
I have no idea how stable it is. I've looked at the RFC in the past,
but I really can't see any huge benefits to using it. Yes, I suppose
you could use a 1394 hub to emulate a network, but I'd be really
worried about contention, collisions and whatnot. 1394 was intended to
be point-to-point, while TCP/IP is intended for networks.
100MB or gigabit is really the way to go. Most newer laptops have
100Base-T NICs. You can get gigabit using a PCMCIA card.
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.
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