Subject: Re: IEEE1394 (ILink/FireWire) support for NetBSD?
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/13/2002 10:22:27
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:52:43AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 07:53:19AM -0400, Alicia da Conceicao wrote:
>=20
>  > what are the chances that we can get IEEE1394 support added to NetBSD
>  > i386 anytime in the near future?  How hard or benefical would it be to
>=20
> We already have some 1394 code, which is currently suitable for using
> as a high-speed network (IP-over-Firewire).

How fast is it really? (faster than 100 MBit Ethernet?)

Regards,
	-is

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