[NTLUG:Discuss] Networking: USB to USB or Firewire to Firewire?

[Chris Cox]

Steve Baker wrote:
> Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> 
>> I think that I have seen both approaches done on Windows. You'd think 
>> that it's been done on Linux before but I didn't find any info on it. 
> 
> 
> If you could pursuade Linux to treat the link as a simple
> character device (like a serial port), you could run ppp
> over it and it would appear just like an Ethernet connection.
> 
> At 400Mbit, it would be faster than 100baseT Ethernet too - maybe
> even comparable to a 1GHz Ethernet (which never seem to run faster
> than ~300Mbit/sec).

Depends upon what USB means.. what Firewire means... that is.. which
spec you have access to.

Here's a nice summary of various speeds:
http://www.macspeedzone.com/archive/5.0/de/gifs/firewirevsscsi.gif