fwe — Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire
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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).
Debian July 16, 2005 FWE(4)
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_chsysctl(8).
This driver supports polling(4) as well if it is compiled with the DEVICE_POLLING option.
History
The fwe device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.
Name
fwe — Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire
See Also
arp(4), firewire(4), fwip(4), fwohci(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), polling(4), ifconfig(8), kldload(8), sysctl(8)
Synopsis
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
devicefirewiredevicefwe
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
if_fwe_load="YES"
