An experiment at Digital Lightwave showed that IEEE1394 is a poor substitute
for cat5 in that application. It did not work.
Smitty
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 15:40, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 13:40, Patrick (at work) wrote:
> > Question is how can it be done with Linux.
> >
> > From: "Mario Lombardo" <mario@alienscience.com>
> >
> > > I didn't know you could bind ports like that. Cool!
>
> You *can* bind ports like that, and it's a feature of the native 2.4
> kernel, but it's not trivial to do and does require a decent ethernet
> switch that supports ethernet "bonding".
>
> If the network is your bottleneck though, this is an option.
>
> Another option is to use IP over IEEE-1394 firewire.
> 400Mbps vs 100Mbps. Unfortunately, cables are a bit beyond cat5, and I
> can't say I've ever seen a firewire end crimper for making your own
> cables ;)
>
> - Ian
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