Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:21:28 -0600 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> To: Christopher Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP over IEEE1394? Message-ID: <C16A8D6B-4F15-11D7-93DF-0003937E39E0@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <1046874244.5665.24.camel@cfowler.outpostsentinel.com>
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Yeah... point to point connections are interesting and powerful but IP would be better if we could get it. I wish I knew more about how to implement it. :) Dave On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 08:23 AM, Christopher Fowler wrote: > This may not be a workable solution, but if you can get 2 programs to > send data across the firewire to one another, you could use pppd > through > that tunnel. > > > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 08:25, David Leimbach wrote: >> Interesting... I didn't even know we had Ethernet over firewire :). >> >> Mac OS X and Windows XP both have IP over firewire either working or >> in the works and somewhat usable. The only one I can claim any >> experience >> with is Mac OS X. It's somewhat flaky though and you get unreliable >> spikes >> in some basic performance tests I have done with it. >> >> It would be a really interesting value added feature for FreeBSD 5.x >> and could potentially open FBSD up even more to the "cluster" market >> which is somewhere its not as proliferated as linux. >> >> With the advent of firewire2 on the horizon it may be even more >> impressive. >> >> I believe there is even an Oracle product for linux which can cluster >> databases >> over firewire now. [I don't know if its IP though] >> >> >> Dave >> On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 01:43 AM, Rossam Souza Silva wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, there is some plan to port NetBSD's implementation of IP over >>> Firewire? I know, we have "Ethernet over Firewire", but like the >>> Linux >>> one, isn't a standard... >>> >>> Just curious. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -- >>> ------- >>> (_ ) "Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is user friendly. It >>> just >>> happens >>> \\\'',) ^ to be very selective about who it decides to make friends >>> with." >>> \/ \( >>> .\._/_) Rossam Souza Silva (rss@cin.ufpe.br) >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -- >>> ------ >>> >>> >>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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