Newbie - How to develop application that use FireWire?

Hi,

I want to develop an application that transafer data through Firewire.
How do I do that?
I need several API for the firewire (sendData, recieveData, openConnection,
etc.)
Do I have to write them myself?

Thanks,
Alon

Maxim
Wed Mar 03 18:13:04 CST 2004

IIRC XP and later support TCP/IP over Firewire. So, just use the good old
socket calls.

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"George bent" <georgeneq@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I want to develop an application that transafer data through Firewire.
> How do I do that?
> I need several API for the firewire (sendData, recieveData, openConnection,
> etc.)
> Do I have to write them myself?
>
> Thanks,
> Alon
>
>

georgeneq
Sat Mar 06 18:47:10 CST 2004

Hi,

I'm Using Win2000 and not XP (And unfortunatly I can't change that)
Can you give me a basic example how to write simple function in C/C++ that
transfer a string through firewire? How do I open a connection? It's depend
on the firewire card I'm using? on the firewire specific driver?

Thanks in advance,
Alon

"Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message
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> IIRC XP and later support TCP/IP over Firewire. So, just use the good
old
> socket calls.
>
> --
> Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> StorageCraft Corporation
> maxim@storagecraft.com
> http://www.storagecraft.com
>
>
> "George bent" <georgeneq@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23GpE2SSAEHA.448@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to develop an application that transafer data through Firewire.
> > How do I do that?
> > I need several API for the firewire (sendData, recieveData,
openConnection,
> > etc.)
> > Do I have to write them myself?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alon
> >
> >
>
>

Maxim
Sat Mar 06 09:43:09 CST 2004

> Can you give me a basic example how to write simple function in C/C++ that
> transfer a string through firewire?

You cannot. To do this, you will need a complex driver stack, which is absent
in 2000. The MS's 1394 stack is not exposed to user mode at all, only to the
drivers.

You can use 1394diag sample for this, though, but note it is full of bugs.

Try www.unibrain.com - IIRC they had "IP over FireWire" stack since around
1999.

--
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com