From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 5 5:25:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C99AD37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:25:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5157B43F85 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leimy2k@mac.com) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h25DPLmT029997 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:25:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([67.33.228.33]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HBA2M900.E3D; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:25:21 -0800 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:25:20 -0600 Subject: Re: IP over IEEE1394? Content-Type: text/plain; delsp=yes; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG To: Rossam Souza Silva From: David Leimbach In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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