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.

Debian                                            July 16, 2005                                          FWIP(4)