[svlug] help transfering data over 1394 cable

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):

> I've tried locking pairs of 10Mb ports to full on both sides without
> success when the same worked through a 10/100 switch, and I've done the
> same with pairs of 100Mb ports, but admittedly, I've never tried it with
> pairs of 1000Mb ports, because by that time, I had no expectation of it
> working. Maybe I should indeed try that at some point.

Of a certainty, the buffering function performed automatically whenever
you put a switch or hub between two machines _does_ make it easier to
deal with cranky ethernet chipsets.  Whatever works.  All I was really
saying was that (in the general case) it pays to try a straight-through 
cable and then a crossover _first_.  Plan B of inserting a suitable
switch or hub would definitely follow after that -- especially given
that small, all-gigabit unmanaged switches have fallen to $30 (!).  (I
had no idea they'd gotten that cheap.  Thanks for pointing that out.)