On Monday 02 August 2004 11:23 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? I don't know. Who cares? - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, but that costs me money ;) Well, I think I'll just use the 100MBit NIC and save the fuss. - Jeroen
