Cross-Platform Firewire Networking at Home?

Stahnke asks "I have two computers that I need to exchange data between. I do music-production on a Windows-based system and have everything else on a Linux system. I need to exchange HUGE amount of data (5GB at a time sometimes) between the two systems as fast as possible while clients are waiting for me. 10/100 Ethernet is too slow, and fiber is just too expensive. Can Linux (2.4) do Firewire networking with a Windows machine? If so, how, and what tools are out there? I have a Firewire card working in Linux, but I haven't had luck with TCP/IP via Firewire yet."

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[Gothmolly]

You obviously have no idea how Windows networking works. It's NetBIOS (the APi, not the fscking protocol) over TCP/IP. Which means if you have IP connectivity, and know what you're doing, it will work just like any "normal" net connection. Try googling for such arcane tools as samba, wins, and lmhosts. ...fscking AOLer...