what are 1394 Net adapter and Mac Bridge Miniport

[firebrick]

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I don't quite understand.
My ASUS board has these.
What are these used for.

I presently use the NVIDIA nForce MCP connection for my home LAN via a
Linksys Router.

What is this 1394 and Mac Bridge Miniport used for?


Please and thank you.

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Bill H. in Chicagoland

 

[Paul]

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In article <v-SdnT-Ul5xnYxHdRVn-hA@comcast.com>, "FireBrick"
<w9ol.nospaml@comcast.com> wrote:

> I don't quite understand.
> My ASUS board has these.
> What are these used for.
>
> I presently use the NVIDIA nForce MCP connection for my home LAN via a
> Linksys Router.
>
> What is this 1394 and Mac Bridge Miniport used for?
>
>
> Please and thank you.

It means you can connect two computers via Firewire and
the Firewire connection is viewed as a network connection
by the computer. If you don't have Gigabit Ethernet in
a computer, the Firewire network option might be the
fastest way to transfer data between machines. I don't
see accounts of poeple using it, so cannot tell you how
well it works.

Apparently, you can even buy a networking box with Firewire
plugs on it, to network multiple computers together.

HTH,
Paul

 

[firebrick]

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Ok, I'll just leave them 'disabled' then.


"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
news:nospam-2604041111340001@192.168.1.177...
> In article <v-SdnT-Ul5xnYxHdRVn-hA@comcast.com>, "FireBrick"
> <w9ol.nospaml@comcast.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't quite understand.
> > My ASUS board has these.
> > What are these used for.
> >
> > I presently use the NVIDIA nForce MCP connection for my home LAN via a
> > Linksys Router.
> >
> > What is this 1394 and Mac Bridge Miniport used for?
> >
> >
> > Please and thank you.
>
> It means you can connect two computers via Firewire and
> the Firewire connection is viewed as a network connection
> by the computer. If you don't have Gigabit Ethernet in
> a computer, the Firewire network option might be the
> fastest way to transfer data between machines. I don't
> see accounts of poeple using it, so cannot tell you how
> well it works.
>
> Apparently, you can even buy a networking box with Firewire
> plugs on it, to network multiple computers together.
>
> HTH,
> Paul