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NAME
       fwe — Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire


SYNOPSIS
       To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

             device firewire
             device fwe

       Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

             if_fwe_load="YES"


DESCRIPTION
       The fwe driver provides non-standard Ethernet emulation over FireWire (IEEE 1394).

       firewire(4) and fwohci(4) must be configured in the kernel as well.

       This driver exploits asynchronous stream over IEEE 1394 to carry Ethernet frames.  The stream channel can
       be specified by the hw.firewire.fwe.stream_ch sysctl(8).

       This driver supports polling(4) as well if it is compiled with the DEVICE_POLLING option.


SEE ALSO
       arp(4),  firewire(4),  fwip(4), fwohci(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), polling(4), ifconfig(8), kldload(8),
       sysctl(8)


HISTORY
       The fwe device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.


AUTHORS
       The fwe driver and this manual page were written by Hidetoshi Shimokawa.


BUGS
       This driver emulates Ethernet in a very adhoc way and it does not  reserve  a  stream  channel  using  an
       isochronous  manager.   Note that this driver uses a protocol which is very different from RFC 2734 (IPv4
       over IEEE 1394).

Debian                                            July 16, 2005                                           FWE(4)