Re: Questions comparing 1394 and Ethernet [was Re: Recommended 1394 chipsets?]

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 13:50, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello Steve,
>
> Steve Kinneberg wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 12:29, Alan Shieh wrote:
> >
> >>Steve Kinneberg wrote:
> > testing. We use IP over 1394 for communicating between embedded devices
> > at work, but our bandwidth needs are relatively modest.
> >
> That was with the gp2lynx chip/driver you posted the driver source of, a
> few months back, on this list?

The GP2Lynx is one of the chipsets we use. We also use OHCI chipsets.

>
> > The same goes for the eth1394 driver. It takes the place of a NIC
> > driver and sits on top of the core IEEE 1394 driver.
> >
> Are there any limitations in eth1394 at this point in time (I recall
> there being some missing features from the IP-over-RFC spec, even when
> using the CRS branch)?

It doesn't support multicasting to all muticast addresses. See the
comments at the beginning of eth1394.c for more details.

>
> For example, will running a DHCP server/client work as expected?

The DHCP server and client software needs to be updated to comply with
RFC 2855. It should really be a small change since the RFC only
describes adding a new hardware type to DHCP.

>
> Regards,
>
> Leon Woestenberg.

-- 
Steve Kinneberg
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