Date: 05 Mar 2003 09:23:59 -0500 From: Christopher Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com> To: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP over IEEE1394? Message-ID: <1046874244.5665.24.camel@cfowler.outpostsentinel.com> In-Reply-To: <E974F694-4F0D-11D7-8E31-0003937E39E0@mac.com> References: <E974F694-4F0D-11D7-8E31-0003937E39E0@mac.com>
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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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