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Date:      Mon, 06 Jan 2003 15:13:15 +0900
From:      Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To:        Juergen.Nickelsen@jnickelsen.de
Cc:        freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IP over FW -- plan for standards implementation?
Message-ID:  <ybsisx24xhg.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: <15896.53248.342373.982755@goting.kms.jnickelsen.de>
References:  <15896.53248.342373.982755@goting.kms.jnickelsen.de>

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At Mon, 6 Jan 2003 01:38:24 +0100 (CET),
Juergen.Nickelsen@jnickelsen.de wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> in /usr/src/sys/dev/firewire/00README I read about Ethernet over
> Firewire:
> 
>     4. Ethernet over FireWire (if_fwe)
> 
> 	  This is a sample driver for ethernet emulation. Please
> 	note this does NOT conform to any standards like IP over
> 	FireWire(RFC2734[4]).
> 
> Of course that should be the reason I got no results trying to
> connect an iBook with Mac OS X (10.2.3) to the FreeBSD box (STABLE
> from Dec 14), although the interface configurations looked ok.
> 
> I guess there are no options to have standard IP over Firewire yet;
> are there any plans for development?

Unfortunately, I have no plan to do it now.  The old FireWire
driver[1] includes support for IP over FireWire(RFC2734). I'm not sure
whether it really works or not because I've not tried it yet but it
should be a good start point.

Any volunteers?

[1] ftp://ftp.uec.ac.jp/pub/firewire/

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