On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Andrew Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:26:35PM +0000, Jon Masters spake thus:
> >
> > Does this sound like a reasonable way of doing this or should I consider
> > fibre solutions (this is for home so I want it to be cheap, but reliable).
> > I am also after suggestions of a suitable network filesystem for the task.
>
> How about IP over FireWire?
Interesting yes, I've been playing with firewire at work (anyone got a
UMAX scanner working? :P), but that hadn't occured to me :)
> In theory you can get 400Mbps across it.
Indeed, I should consider that shouldn't I :) I'll have a look (cheers
Simon for the link but I already knew of the sourceforge project - kind of
strange how something this obviously suited to what I want to do slipped
my mind :P) and er, mess around. I wonder if it's easy to do loopback
literally by running a cable from one card back to itself for testing...
Thanks Andrew,
--jcm
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