firewire (1394) networking

[mastahnke]

I would like to network two machines (windows and linux) together using firewire. I already have them networked over ethernet (hub/router) but I would like faster file transfers. I need to transfer large audio/video projects between the two systems. Is this easy to do? How do I do it? I already have firewire on the windows machine, and buying a card and cable isn't hard. I am concerned about IP over firewire, and the general networking part.

--MIKE

[Gantrep]

Well, why do you want to do this? UltraATA/100 is of course only 100 Mbps transfer speed, where Firewire is 400. Unless you have scsi, I think that you'd be better off with ethernet.

But, perhaps this will be helpful

http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala/IP_over_1394.html

[plat]

i belive ata 100 is 100mBps not 100mbps. big difference there

[Gantrep]

How silly of me.

If you haven't already found it, here's another link that may be helpful:

http://www.linux1394.org/

[mastahnke]

I had found that link, but it mainly talks about DV stuff, not networking. I might just have to get some hardware and try it, though I am not sure yet.

[mastahnke]

So far I am just trying to configure the card i have in linux, then I will try the networking part.

is this right?

dmesg | grep 1394 looks like

ohci1394: $Rev: 530 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[9] MMIO=[dd800000-dd800800] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[0011060000003162] [Linux OHCI-1394]

I have no way to cnnect it currently and test....

--MIKE

[bastard23]

mastahnke,
I don't think linux IP over 1394 works with windows. From the googling I've done, it looks like the code isn't that stable and will only work with other linux boxes. If your interested in a technical overview check this link: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2683261 (sourceforge linux1394-devel mailing list). It appears that some work is being done, but it just isn't their yet. You might want look at the linux1394-user (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=linux1394-user) mailing list. Check out the archives, subscribe, then post your question there.

But, if you want to try, you need to load the eth1394 module and configure your network:
modprobe eth1394
dmesg # Look for what device eth1394 got configured for
ifconfig <device from dmesg> <your IP address> netmask <your netmask>

That's assuming you have eth1394 as a module.

I haven't run this myself, and this is relatively untested code so be careful (make sure you don't mind rebooting).

Good Luck,
chris

PS This google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=1394+networking) found this devshed.com post (http://forums.devshed.com/t49381/s0744376dbc9aa94f578606ef0ea16d07.html) by you, I presume, on the first page. You are definately looking at one of the edges of Linux (aka not known/used much)