ethernet and firewire. can't we all just get along....

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i have 2 NICs, one firewire attached to an external drive which is attached
to a G4 running 10.3.5 and an ethernet attached to a speed stream 5100 modem.
the two can function independent of each other (i recognize not only the
shuttle drives but also the mac with the firewire and i recognize the
internet with the ethernet) but when both network cards are enabled the
internet dies and then i loose the firewire. 255.255.255.0 is my subnet for
both but tcp/ip is provided as static for the ethernet and i am using
192.168.0.2 for the mac.

i am not interested in bridging for internet access or printer sharing or
anything else for that matter. i just want to create movies on the mac for
output to the web on the pc (400Mbps is nicer than 100Mbps ethernet).

i used to be able do this before the dsl (when movies were submitted via
dvd/cd). is there any way to make this work???

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

i have 2 NICs, one firewire attached to an external drive which is attached
to a G4 running 10.3.5 and an ethernet attached to a speed stream 5100 modem.
the two can function independent of each other (i recognize not only the
shuttle drives but also the mac with the firewire and i recognize the
internet with the ethernet) but when both network cards are enabled the
internet dies and then i loose the firewire. 255.255.255.0 is my subnet for
both but tcp/ip is provided as static for the ethernet and i am using
192.168.0.2 for the mac.

i am not interested in bridging for internet access or printer sharing or
anything else for that matter. i just want to create movies on the mac for
output to the web on the pc (400Mbps is nicer than 100Mbps ethernet).

i used to be able do this before the dsl (when movies were submitted via
dvd/cd). is there any way to make this work???

255.255.255.0 is the subnet mask. By itself, it doesn't determine
what subnet a NIC is in. For that, you have to look at the IP address
and the subnet mask. With that subnet mask, two NICs are in the same
subnet if, and only if, their IP addresses are the same in the first
three numbers.

Your FireWire and Ethernet NICs must have IP addresses in different
subnets. As I recall, Speedstream routers use 192.168.0.x addresses.
In that case, you can't use 192.168.0.x addresses for the FireWire
network. Change FireWire to a different subnet, such as 192.168.1.x,
on both computers.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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