NAME¶
fwe
—
Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire
SYNOPSIS¶
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel
configuration file:
device firewire
device fwe
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
line in
loader.conf(5):
DESCRIPTION¶
The
fwe
driver provides non-standard Ethernet
emulation over FireWire (IEEE 1394).
firewire(4) and
fwohci(4) must be configured in the kernel as
well.
This driver exploits asynchronous stream over IEEE 1394 to carry Ethernet
frames. The stream channel can be specified by the
hw.firewire.fwe.stream_ch
sysctl(8).
This driver supports
polling(4) as well if it is
compiled with the
DEVICE_POLLING
option.
SEE ALSO¶
arp(4),
firewire(4),
fwip(4),
fwohci(4),
netintro(4),
ng_ether(4),
polling(4),
ifconfig(8),
kldload(8),
sysctl(8)
HISTORY¶
The
fwe
device driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 5.0.
AUTHORS¶
The
fwe
driver and this manual page were
written by
Hidetoshi Shimokawa.
BUGS¶
This driver emulates Ethernet in a very adhoc way and it does not reserve a
stream channel using an isochronous manager. Note that this driver uses a
protocol which is very different from RFC 2734 (IPv4 over IEEE 1394).