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Date:      06 Mar 2003 09:24:50 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "Cagle, John  " "(ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com>
Cc:        David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: IP over IEEE1394?
Message-ID:  <1046904890.66086.10.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10476C011@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
References:   <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10476C011@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>

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On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 01:06, Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote:
> Wouldn't you need a firewire switch to do a cluster of more than 2
> nodes?  Or are you thinking of using multiple firewire interfaces per
> node?

Firewire supports daisy chaining devices, and multiple masters.

I have done laptop -> firewire hd -> desktop PC and used the drive on
one machine and setup a network between the two of them :)

fwcontrol -t shows bus topology.

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