Recommended 1394 chipsets?

Hi,

I have an older laptop, and want to provide it with high-speed access to
non-local scratch drives to speed up builds. I have not been able to
find aftermarket gigabit ethernet adapters for laptops (and I doubt
they'll ever exist).The only option seems to be to use 1394* and either
SBP or eth1394 transport to access remote disks.

I'm concerned about hardware compatibility and stability. In particular,
I have not been able to find well-organized information online reference
regarding the quality of chipset/driver combinations under Linux. I
would appreciate some help with the following questions, loosely ordered
by immediacy:

What are the general recommendations on adapters (i.e. vendors) and
chipsets? Is there a particular chipset or manufacturer I should avoid,
i.e. for stability or performance reasons?
Would I have any reason to buy a CardBus adapter to replace/augment my
built-in TSB43AB21 PHY/Link?
Which host adapters / IDE<=>1394 bridges provide support for SBP-2?

I'm also curious as to user experiences with:
 ** 1394+SBP-2 tunneling over iSCSI, with iSCSI<=>IDE translator.
 ** eth1394 + md over nbd (or enbd)
 ** eth1394 + libpcap (i.e., does it work)
 ** eth1394 + WinXP
 ** 1394 iperf numbers, throughput and cpu utilization
 ** are there any 1394 hardware switching crossbars?

Thanks in advance.

Alan

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