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FWE(4)			    Kernel Interfaces Manual			FWE(4)

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	Ether-
       net  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  re-
       serve  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).

FreeBSD	13.2			 July 16, 2005				FWE(4)

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