fwip(4)

NAME

fwip - IP over FireWire driver

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the  following
lines in your
kernel configuration file:
      device firewire
      device fwip
Alternatively,  to load the driver as a module at boot time,
place the
following lines in loader.conf(5):
      firewire_load="YES"
      if_fwip_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The fwip driver provides standard IP over FireWire (IEEE

1394) based on
the protocols described in RFC 2734 and RFC 3146.

The firewire(4) and fwohci(4) drivers must be configured in

the kernel as
well.

This driver supports polling(4) as well if it is compiled

with the
DEVICE_POLLING option.

SEE ALSO

arp(4), firewire(4), fwe(4), fwohci(4), netintro(4),

polling(4),
ifconfig(8), kldload(8), sysctl(8)

HISTORY

The fwip device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.

AUTHORS

The fwip driver and this manual page were written by Doug

Rabson, based
on earlier work by Hidetoshi Shimokawa.

BUGS

This driver currently does not support the MCAP protocol for

multicast IP
over FireWire. Multicast packets are treated as broadcast

packets which
is sufficient for most trivial uses of multicast.

BSD July 16, 2005

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