Hi, Does any of you have experience with TCP/IP over FireWire? I am thinking about buying a firewire card for my desktop to connect it to my laptop to have a fast connection. Thanks, Jeroen
J.L. Coenders wrote:
Hi, Does any of you have experience with TCP/IP over FireWire? I am thinking about buying a firewire card for my desktop to connect it to my laptop to have a fast connection.
Firewire is not a network media, although you could do iSCSI over it (SCSI tunneled through TCP). You'd be better off using gigabit LAN cards and a CAT5e or CAT6 MDIX cable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Squawk! Pieces of Seven! Pieces of Seven! Parity Error! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I know, but I found a site about it (http://www.linux1394.org/eth1394.php) which states it isn't very stable. However, I was wondering if anyone knows how stable it is, what is the current issues are, etc. The thing is I have a laptop which has FireWire and I would like fast transferring from it to my main computer. My laptop doesn't have a gigabit connection... yet ;) - Jeroen
On Monday 02 August 2004 08:27 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
J.L. Coenders wrote:
Hi, Does any of you have experience with TCP/IP over FireWire? I am thinking about buying a firewire card for my desktop to connect it to my laptop to have a fast connection.
Firewire is not a network media, although you could do iSCSI over it (SCSI tunneled through TCP). You'd be better off using gigabit LAN cards and a CAT5e or CAT6 MDIX cable.
- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@vitalstream.com -
- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
-
Squawk! Pieces of Seven! Pieces of Seven! Parity Error! -
J.L. Coenders wrote:
I know, but I found a site about it (http://www.linux1394.org/eth1394.php) which states it isn't very stable. However, I was wondering if anyone knows how stable it is, what is the current issues are, etc. The thing is I have a laptop which has FireWire and I would like fast transferring from it to my main computer. My laptop doesn't have a gigabit connection... yet ;)
Bottom post, please.
I have no idea how stable it is. I've looked at the RFC in the past, but I really can't see any huge benefits to using it. Yes, I suppose you could use a 1394 hub to emulate a network, but I'd be really worried about contention, collisions and whatnot. 1394 was intended to be point-to-point, while TCP/IP is intended for networks.
100MB or gigabit is really the way to go. Most newer laptops have 100Base-T NICs. You can get gigabit using a PCMCIA card.
On Monday 02 August 2004 08:27 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
J.L. Coenders wrote:
Hi, Does any of you have experience with TCP/IP over FireWire? I am thinking about buying a firewire card for my desktop to connect it to my laptop to have a fast connection.
Firewire is not a network media, although you could do iSCSI over it (SCSI tunneled through TCP). You'd be better off using gigabit LAN cards and a CAT5e or CAT6 MDIX cable.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? I don't know. Who cares? - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Monday 02 August 2004 11:23 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
J.L. Coenders wrote:
I know, but I found a site about it (http://www.linux1394.org/eth1394.php) which states it isn't very stable. However, I was wondering if anyone knows how stable it is, what is the current issues are, etc. The thing is I have a laptop which has FireWire and I would like fast transferring from it to my main computer. My laptop doesn't have a gigabit connection... yet ;)
Bottom post, please.
I have no idea how stable it is. I've looked at the RFC in the past, but I really can't see any huge benefits to using it. Yes, I suppose you could use a 1394 hub to emulate a network, but I'd be really worried about contention, collisions and whatnot. 1394 was intended to be point-to-point, while TCP/IP is intended for networks.
100MB or gigabit is really the way to go. Most newer laptops have 100Base-T NICs. You can get gigabit using a PCMCIA card.
On Monday 02 August 2004 08:27 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
J.L. Coenders wrote:
Hi, Does any of you have experience with TCP/IP over FireWire? I am thinking about buying a firewire card for my desktop to connect it to my laptop to have a fast connection.
Firewire is not a network media, although you could do iSCSI over it (SCSI tunneled through TCP). You'd be better off using gigabit LAN cards and a CAT5e or CAT6 MDIX cable.
- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@vitalstream.com -
- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
-
- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? I don't know. Who cares? -
Yes, but that costs me money ;) Well, I think I'll just use the 100MBit NIC and save the fuss. - Jeroen
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:53:38PM +0200, J.L. Coenders wrote:
I know, but I found a site about it (http://www.linux1394.org/eth1394.php) which states it isn't very stable. However, I was wondering if anyone knows how stable it is, what is the current issues are, etc. The thing is I have a laptop which has FireWire and I would like fast transferring from it to my main computer. My laptop doesn't have a gigabit connection... yet ;)
- Jeroen
What is the sustained data rate for the disk on your lap top?
Many laptop disks and motherboards are slow enough that going real fast on the network does not make much difference.
The project page looks interesting... If you have firewire on both boxes give it a try.
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 12:16, J.L. Coenders wrote:
Hi, Does any of you have experience with TCP/IP over FireWire? I am thinking about buying a firewire card for my desktop to connect it to my laptop to have a fast connection. Thanks, Jeroen
I have no personal experience with firewire.
But google gives this
http://www.pcbuyersguide.com/solutions/networks/ieee1394_networking.html