Journal forged's Journal: FireWire point-to-point link for networking 12
Out of the 5 in total, my main 2 computers are on separate networks: one for VPN to work (my email), and one directly attached to the ADSL router for my wife's personal email and browsing. The problem is that the PC's cannot see each other since they are in different networks, yet they stand two metres apart and I wanted to share my printer and scanner for the other PC to benefit.
This morning I bought a 4.5m FireWire 6-6 cable for 25 in order to connect the two PC's back-to-back using the firewire ports. The setup was very easy: assign a static IP address each from RFC1918, and the link was useable just after that at 400Mbits/s. The joy of copying files at OC-3 speed at home is great =)
Anyone else has tried this yet ? If not, and if you ever need a quick, cheap, reliable and easy to setup networking solution for a couple of PC's, think about it. These guys have thought about it for quite some time, it seems.
Update 13 May: Someone posted Apple: IP over Firewire Updated.
just pt-to-pt, right? (Score:2)
Still, its very nice for sharing a printer over vpn (an issue I currently have...)
however my VPN machine is a P166 win98 beast... its just not worth putting fire-wire in there.
yes (Score:2)
Yes, only p2p (Score:2)
In your particular case, you could get away for cheaper by just adding a second NIC to your PC's, or by moving the cables around when needed (that's what I did for months until today ;)
Firewire hub (Score:2)
Then I tried to hook two computers into the same firewire drive, don't try this at home folks. The firewire drive started making a loud beeping noise and never worked again. Played dumb and got the manufacturer to take it back. Their newer drive only include one firewire port now.
Knew it was fast (Score:1)
Nah, screw it. I'd rather put the money into a new processor and video card for my game box. Still, it does sound interesting. Maybe if I ever replace my current server/firewall/gateway machine.
Re:Knew it was fast (Score:2)
People really serious about performance will consider GigE with a
Re:Knew it was fast (Score:2)
*sigh* now I want one...
Re:Knew it was fast (Score:1)
Yes (Score:2)
Re:Yes (Score:1)
The extra RAM I threw at the machine a month or two ago was quite helpful. Probably moreso than an incremental video card or CPU update will be:) But, I've got some other extra parts. With extra parts from the coming upgrades, I can put together a new machine, possib
OS X, too (Score:2)
Then the iMac had a kernel pani
Re:OS X, too (Score:2)
I tried the Linux implementation (eth1394) which didn't work for me. The FW link was seen as eth1 after the proper module was installed, I could configure an IP address, but no luck pinging the other side which was the XP machine. Between the XP and ME machines, it just works (and feels almost not right ;)