TCP/IP over FireWire

[Rick Stevens]

J.L. Coenders wrote:
> Hi,
> Does any of you have experience with TCP/IP over FireWire? 
> I am thinking about buying a firewire card for my desktop to connect it to my 
> laptop to have a fast connection.

Firewire is not a network media, although you could do iSCSI over it
(SCSI tunneled through TCP).  You'd be better off using gigabit LAN
cards and a CAT5e or CAT6 MDIX cable.
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