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IP Over 1394/Firewire?

Posted by Cliff on from the bridging-the-connection-gap dept.

Chanc_Gorkon asks: "Just like to ask the Slashdot community if anyone has a set of step-by-step instructions for connecting two computers via IP over Firewire. Mac OS X Panther supports IP over Firewire, as does Windows XP. I would like to hook my PowerBook to a Windows XP machine, and be able to access the Internet and share files over the link. I am shooting for near full functionality, but the closest I came in my initial trials was being able to set static IP's per Firewire port, and do a FTP between the machines. If I can get this working, I figure this will be a good way of getting my PowerBook on the office network, without having to have a drop put in."

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  1. Re:Why Drop? by bluedream · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Last time I checked, Firewire was 400 Mbps... quite a bit faster than 100 Mbps ethernet. Probably kicks ass with file transfers.

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  2. Re:Why Drop? by Mournblade · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except some companies (including the giant east-coast bank that just acquired my company) do not allow hubs or switches at the desktop for security reasons. I confess that I never asked what the specific policy was, since I was in charge of wiring the space before we moved into it 3 years ago. I specified 4 cat5 drops to each workstation (office and cube), with two punched down to the phone system, and two to the network. If necessary, we could steal a 3rd drop for the LAN, but so far, 2 has been enough.

  3. Huh? by molo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you could ftp from one machine to the next over firewire, then IP is working. Sounds like you need to figure out how to setup a NAT or HTTP Proxy. You're barking up the wrong tree.

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