XP pro on both lan and firewire

[John B]

I've got a couple computers on my lan that are both
running XP pro and have firewire controllers. I want to
add a firewire link between them so that any communication
between them is moved off the lan onto the firewire. I
want the connection to be "tranparent". What I mean by
this is that I still want to use UNC pathes
like "\\computername\shared folder" and not have to use
the firework network devices IP address.

How would I got about configuring this? What are the
optins for getting this working. Is it as simple as plug
and play? If a network bridge between the lan adapter and
the firewire adapter is created on both computers would
this get desired results?

What I'd really like to avoid is disconnecting the lan on
computerA. Bridging the firewire/lan on computerB. Then
connecting the firewire between the machines. I'd like to
avoid this because computerA can only access lan when
computerB is on.

TYIA,
John B.

 

[Chuck]

I've got a couple computers on my lan that are both
running XP pro and have firewire controllers. I want to
add a firewire link between them so that any communication
between them is moved off the lan onto the firewire. I
want the connection to be "tranparent". What I mean by
this is that I still want to use UNC pathes
like "\\computername\shared folder" and not have to use
the firework network devices IP address.

How would I got about configuring this? What are the
optins for getting this working. Is it as simple as plug
and play? If a network bridge between the lan adapter and
the firewire adapter is created on both computers would
this get desired results?

What I'd really like to avoid is disconnecting the lan on
computerA. Bridging the firewire/lan on computerB. Then
connecting the firewire between the machines. I'd like to
avoid this because computerA can only access lan when
computerB is on.

TYIA,
John B.

John,

The static routing table contains entries that select a specific network
controller, to connect with specific ip addresses. Adding entries to reference
the other's specific (non-firewire) address, thru the firewire controller,
should do the trick.
<http://linux-ip.net/html/tools-route.html>
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1201.mspx>

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I've got a couple computers on my lan that are both
running XP pro and have firewire controllers. I want to
add a firewire link between them so that any communication
between them is moved off the lan onto the firewire. I
want the connection to be "tranparent". What I mean by
this is that I still want to use UNC pathes
like "\\computername\shared folder" and not have to use
the firework network devices IP address.

How would I got about configuring this? What are the
optins for getting this working. Is it as simple as plug
and play? If a network bridge between the lan adapter and
the firewire adapter is created on both computers would
this get desired results?

What I'd really like to avoid is disconnecting the lan on
computerA. Bridging the firewire/lan on computerB. Then
connecting the firewire between the machines. I'd like to
avoid this because computerA can only access lan when
computerB is on.

TYIA,
John B.

If XP knows that both the LAN connection and the FireWire connection
can reach the other computer, it will automatically use the FireWire
connection, because it's faster. This Microsoft Knowledge Base
article has details:

An Explanation of the Automatic Metric Feature for Internet Protocol
Routes
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=299540

The trick will be getting it to associate the computer name with the
FireWire connection, not with the LAN connection. To tell, go to a
command prompt and ping the other computer by name. If it responds
with the IP address of the FireWire connection, all is well. If it
responds with the IP address of the LAN connection, then:

1. Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP on the FireWire connection.
2. Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP on the LAN connection.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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