Re: Ether 1394

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On Fri, 26 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] Franck Bonin wrote:

> I have done some improvements with eth1394 driver and
> ohci1394
> lowlevel driver. Now I can reach High speed data
> transfer.
> 
> For exemple, I can download large files such as
> 20Mbytes 
> In 5 seconds, just look :

That is good news.

> I also would like to ask if someone know a way to
> build an UNIQUE HW
> address of 6 bytes, by using some kind of unique ID
> obtained from IEEE
> 1394 cards.
> 
> This would be a better solution instead of using nodes
> number.

Could it be possible to set the ethernet address from a load-time
parameter when you insmod the module.  This would allow unique and
constant addresses, but would be hard to map to the cards I guess.

Judd Tracy
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