1394 firewire network

[nickJ]

i know that you can connect two PCs directly to eachother with firewire
but can you network more that 2? would it work if you had 2 firewire
connections and bridged them? and can you buy firewire network hubs?

thanks for any help

also, i need help on an ethernet network.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

i know that you can connect two PCs directly to eachother with firewire
but can you network more that 2? would it work if you had 2 firewire
connections and bridged them? and can you buy firewire network hubs?

thanks for any help

also, i need help on an ethernet network.

You can network multiple computers using a FireWire hub or a FireWire
adapter in one of the computers that has multiple ports.
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[nickJ]

how does that work? just get alot of firewire ports? would the all be
able to share files with eachother?

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

how does that work? just get alot of firewire ports?

My desktop computer has a PCI FireWire card with two ports. I've
connected one port to the FireWire port on my laptop, and one port to
the FireWire port on my Tablet PC. All three computers are networked
together.

would the all be able to share files with eachother?

Computers on a FireWire network can share files with each other, just
like they can on Ethernet networks.
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[nickJ]

thanks for all the info!

 

[crosherg]

We have found it easy to network 2 PC's running XP using firewire cards
but when we try to add a third machine one of the existing machines
always becomes unreachable. In other words we can't find a way of
networking more than two machines with firewire. Is it really possible?

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

We have found it easy to network 2 PC's running XP using firewire cards
but when we try to add a third machine one of the existing machines
always becomes unreachable. In other words we can't find a way of
networking more than two machines with firewire. Is it really possible?

Yes, it's possible. I have three machines networked using FireWire.
The main machine has a 2-port FireWire PCI card that I've used to
connect the other two.

How are you connecting the three machines? How are they getting IP
addresses?
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[crosherg]

Hi Steve, thanks for getting back.

We have three Windows XP desktop PC's (we've tried both SP1 and SP2
builds). A Belkin Firewire PCI card in each (we've tried it with both
Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 cards). We've tried the PC's connected
through a Belkin Firewire hub and also tried just daisy-chaining them
together. We have manually allocated a different IP address to each -
not altered anything else in the TCP/IP properties other than that
(i.e. default subnet, no DNS, no WINS, no Gateway, no DHCP, etc).

If we hook any two machines together they can ping each other happily.
The instant we hook up a third machine, one of the first two machines
(seemingly at random) always goes unreachable.

Stumped!

Gordon Crosher

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Yes, it's possible. I have three machines networked using FireWire.
The main machine has a 2-port FireWire PCI card that I've used to
connect the other two.

How are you connecting the three machines? How are they getting IP
addresses?

Hi Steve, thanks for getting back.

We have three Windows XP desktop PC's (we've tried both SP1 and SP2
builds). A Belkin Firewire PCI card in each (we've tried it with both
Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 cards). We've tried the PC's connected
through a Belkin Firewire hub and also tried just daisy-chaining them
together. We have manually allocated a different IP address to each -
not altered anything else in the TCP/IP properties other than that
(i.e. default subnet, no DNS, no WINS, no Gateway, no DHCP, etc).

If we hook any two machines together they can ping each other happily.
The instant we hook up a third machine, one of the first two machines
(seemingly at random) always goes unreachable.

Stumped!

Gordon Crosher[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the explanation, Gordon. I'm sorry, but I don't know what
the problem is. In my limited experience on my own network,
everything has worked.

I'd call Belkin and see if they can figure out the problem.
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[nickJ]

Did you try bridging the firewire connections?