MKRFC2734(1)

✨ NAME ✨

mkrfc2734 — the lil glow-up that makes your Linux 2.4 box IP over IEEE 1394 capable 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mkrfc2734

That's it bestie. No flags. No args. Just vibes and a single command 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: mkrfc2734 slides into your Linux IEEE 1394 Configuration ROM and drops some entries in there, right? and what those entries are doing is introducing your machine to every other node on the bus like "hi yes hello, I am absolutely capable of performing IP over IEEE 1394 (RFC 2734) duties" 💅 it's literally your node's little business card. main character energy fr.

important tea though: you do not need this utility on Linux 2.6, because there's a kernel configuration option that handles all of that for you. so if you're on 2.6, this is giving ✨ unnecessary ✨ no cap.

This command takes no arguments, and it needs all of the following to even exist:

• the raw1394 kernel module
• the libraw1394 library
• the /dev/raw1394 device file

and here's the part that really matters: it makes absolutely no sense to run this unless you've also loaded the eth1394 kernel module — because that's the one doing the actual work, the bits that do the real work 😭 like girl you'd be handing out business cards at a party with no party.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

mkrfc2734 and this man page were written by Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>. iconic of him honestly 🎀

k that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 this one's from February 2005, and it's living in the General Commands Manual section as MKRFC2734(1). go forth and be RFC 2734 capable, but only if eth1394 is loaded ok?? mwah 💋💖