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Apple Releases Preview of IP over FireWire

Posted by pudge on from the now-i-really-need-to-remember-the-difference-between-MB-and-Mb dept.

A user writes, "Apple has finally released IP over FireWire drivers for Mac OS X. It is now possible to connect two or more Macs together with FireWire cables and if needed, FireWire hubs."

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  1. On XP it works nicely. by kmellis · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been using IP on 1394 from my desktop box to my Sony laptop. I just bridge my ethernet and firewire NICs on my desktop PC, and the Sony has an Internet connection over Firewire (which they call "i.Link"). It works great. Theoretically, I should be seeing four times the bandwidth on the 1394 link than I see with 100 Ethernet, but in reality it's not that big of a difference. As people are saying about gig-ethernet, other things, like the PCI bus, start to be limiting factors.

  2. Re:It deleted my network settings by tim1724 · · Score: 4, Informative

    aha.. macfixit.com has the solution. It turns out that for some reason /var/db/SystemConfiguration/preferences.xml is renamed to preferences.xml-old .. so just move it back:

    cd /var/db/SystemConfiguration/
    mv preferences.xml-old preferences.xml

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    -- Tim Buchheim