From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 5 6:20:25 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 8C31F37B408 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 06:20:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.outpostsentinel.com (66-23-198-138.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.198.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8386443F3F for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 06:20:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cfowler@outpostsentinel.com) Received: from [192.168.2.8] ([192.168.2.8]) by www.outpostsentinel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h25EK2F08140; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:20:05 -0500 Subject: Re: IP over IEEE1394? From: Christopher Fowler To: David Leimbach Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 05 Mar 2003 09:23:59 -0500 Message-Id: <1046874244.5665.24.camel@cfowler.outpostsentinel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 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