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Originally posted by Todd Corzett: Let me rephrase the thing about Airport... I wouldn't be using an Airport connection, but rather the Airport base station as a router (if needed)... Does the Airport support gigabit routing? I'm looking into firewire routing, but gigabit should be faster correct? 400mbits vs 1000mbits? Since I have gigabit installed on my PowerBook already All I need is a PCI gigabit card for my B&W... Is there anything else needed? Can I connect the PowerBook and B&W directly with a gigabit cable, or do I need to go through a gigabit hub ($$$)? I will be running the B&W with OSX (just wanted to mention that there was the option of running OS9). How would I set it up so that the B&W would use the built in network card (and an associated IP address) for all network communications... and the PCI gigabit for only transfers to/from my PowerBook? Thank you again for the information! -Todd... |
No the Airport needs to stay out of the data path if you are saying 100Mbit/s is too slow. Filestore access over gigabit ethernet may my considerably slower than firewire, depending on a whole lot of variables such as what protocol you are using, how much padding is implemented to fill the gigabit ethernet frame etc.
I didn't follow your description of the airport, static IPs and so on, so I can't offer you advice on that. It is possible to have two different IP networks running over the SAME physical ethernet network. Worth bearing in mind.
Cheers
Ben.