Re: ipv4 over firewire

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 03:26 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> For debugging purposes, I have set up a firewire connection between my
> desktop and laptop. But it so happens, that it is nice to use it as a
> network link, and it has about 12 Mbytes/s rates, more that enough for
> me. (ethernet port on desktop is used for main network connection, and
> laptop connected wirelessly)
> 
> It seems that NM ignores the firewire eth1394. and newer firewire-net.
> 
> 
> Is that true?

Probably.  There's nothing that says we couldn't add support for it, but
I think there's just some missing bits for recognizing the bus type or
something.

Got a pointer guide on how to set it up in Linux that I could take a
look at?  I might at least be able to narrow down where NM is ignoring
the device.

Dan