OT Can I connect my two computers together with FireWire

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/2/26 Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>:
> I would like to transfer data from one computer to another.  I have a firewire
> cable. If I connect the two computers together with the FireWire cable, will
> I be able to communicate back and forth and transfer data from one to the
> other this way?  Thanks!
>
> Steven

There shouldn't be any problem.
First you must enable the eth1394 module that is blacklisted in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. Put a # before "blacklist eth1394" (so it
can be loaded at boot). Then load the driver eth1394, "sudo modprobe
eth1394".
Assign a IP to the firewire interface (for me it's eth2 check with the
command ifconfig), "sudo ifconfig eth2 192.168.1.1 netmask
255.255.255.0 up".
Do the same on the other computer but with another IP-adress from the
same subnet like in my example 192.168.1.2. Then you should be able to
transfer files between the machines with samba, FTP, SSH, NFS or
something.
I haven't test it but google say it will work :-)

/ Jonas