Firewire and Ethernet =

[Lonestar567]

I currently have two server computers (mostly for storage).
They and 3 other computers are connected to a Linksys Router for the internet.
The problem i have is that i want the two servers to talk through Firewire for large files, but while i can get the files to transfer, the internet just drops and tries only to connect through the firewire.
We had a bridged connection in one computer (of the two servers) and we were able to get files shared and the internet, but the rest of the network couldn't see the unbridged computer, or if it could see it, it couldn't connection unless through IP (i'd like to use the computer names so they can be found by the network neighborhood).

-Any Ideas?
Thanks

 

[chadomaly]

my setup uses 2 computers with wireless to a router/cable modem. between the two though I have a firewire link for large files and such. the two computers connect to the internet through their respective wireless cards, but to each other through firewire rather than the wireless router. I just set up shares and such referencing the IP rather than computer name... or add it to the hosts file so windows uses the firewire ip when you use the computer name

 

[Lonestar567]

The problem is that when firewire is enabled at all, it flips out...er... takes over the internet connection.
This is worrisome because what if i wanted to connect a camera or something? would the same thing happen.
Seems like there is a binding problem, but i'm not sure where its at.

 

[Teva24]

This will work fine:

Your problem could be caused by this:

Your firewire network must be on a different IP subnet than your ethernet or your computer will get confused (Unless you bridged it and it sees it as one card anyway) Give me a little bit more info on your setup.

Example:
Internet router: 192.168.0.1
PC1: 192.168.0.5
PC2: 192.168.0.6
PC3: 192.168.0.7

PC1 Firewire: 192.168.1.5
PC2 Firewire: 192.168.1.6

Firewire interface should NOT have a default gateway, or DNS entries
Example: From PC2 you want top copy a large file from PC1:
For the defualt admin share of the C drive
START-RUN-> \\192.168.1.5\c$
This will open up the C drive of PC1 via the FireWire network.

When you want to copy large files, use the IP address and not the computer name.

-Teva24

 

[Lonestar567]

Sorry, got a little annoyed and gave up on it until now.
I tried it real fast and the setup seems to be working.

Cable modem to Router (192.168.1.1)
Router to other computers and Server1 (192.168.1.2)
Server1 connected by firewire to Server 2
Server1 has a bridged connection for firewire and ethernet
Server 2 is just setup as 192.168.1.6

All computers are running on a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 with a default gateway and DNS server as the router (192.168.1.1)

I then ran the Networking Wizard on Server 2 to tell it to use the firewire only to connect to the internet.

I hope thats all useful information to... someone
-Thanks everyone