Subject: Re: IEEE1394 (ILink/FireWire) support for NetBSD?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Chip Marshall <chip@chocobo.cx>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/13/2002 12:52:06
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On June 13, 2002, Ignatios Souvatzis sent me the following:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:52:43AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> > We already have some 1394 code, which is currently suitable for using
> > as a high-speed network (IP-over-Firewire).
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> How fast is it really? (faster than 100 MBit Ethernet?)

I connected my laptop to my PC via Firewire last weekend. Windows
reports it as a 400Mbps connection. I didn't do any actually testing,
but it should be faster for bulk transfers than ethernet.

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