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 Tuesday, Jan 20, 2004, at 19:59 America/Denver, Bruce Best (ACTO)
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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. Whi
> > 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 some
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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
> 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.
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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.
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:54:47AM -0500, Bruce wrote:
> RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> RX bytes:2112 (2.0 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
It actually received (RXed) 66 packets/2112 octets. So there /is/ some
connection. Maybe you can't TX (transmit)?--Broke
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