FWE(4)

NAME
fwe - Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire

SYNOPSIS
kldload firewire
kldload if_fwe

or

device fwe
device firewire
device fwohci

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).

For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). The fwe driver supports polling(4).

SEE ALSO
arp(4), firewire(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).