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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:39:20 -0300 (BRT)
From:      Rossam Souza Silva <rss@cin.ufpe.br>
To:        Chris Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>
Cc:        David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com>, <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IP over IEEE1394?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303211832300.14963-100000@jurema.cin.ufpe.br>
In-Reply-To: <1048284124.1788.8.camel@hp.outpostsentinel.com>

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On 21 Mar 2003, Chris Fowler wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand the motivations of running IP over firewire
> vs. ethernet.  Sure I think its cool but will the speed be there with
> firewire2?  On Windows, It is P-t-P is it not? I would prefer a real
> live network.

Hi, I don't know about the Mac's implementation, but yes, Windows has IP
over Firewire, like NetBSD. The good reason for IP over Firewire:
because it's a standard, you can connect Macs, Win Boxes and BSDs! :)

Rossam.

> 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.
> > >
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