TCP/IP over FireWire

[J.L. Coenders]

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.
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