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Apple releases IP over FireWire Preview
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
December 4th 2002
The mothership's no-excuses serial-connectivity solution gets new legs
The Apple Developer Connection (ADC) has posted the IP over FireWire Preview Release.
"Because FireWire can transfer data at up to 400 megabits/second, it is suitable for
networking and clustering solutions, as well as temporary connections to the internet
using Internet Sharing," states the related ADC page dryly.
With the IP over FireWire Preview Release adds support for using the Internet Protocol
and Macs and other devices can use existing IP protocols and services over FireWire,
including AFP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, etc. In all cases, Rendezvous can be used if desired
for configuration, name resolution and discovery.
The preview release adds a new Kernel Extension (ie a .kext file) that hooks into the
existing network services architecture. Using the existing Network Preferences Pane,
users can add FireWire as their IP network node to connect and communicate between two
machines.
Editor's note: As with all things new and innovative, the value lies in people
actually finding uses for the product, and that means developers and hardware makers
creating compatible third-party widgets and software. Fundamentally, people are pretty
dull and will use what's put before them -- ie Windoze.
Will this overtly exciting extension of a really great technology take off? That's the
$64-billion question.
But, merely the notion of hot-pluggable, instant-discovery networking peeks my
interest.
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