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by ssl-3 674 days ago
It used to work for some applications.

Back in the day, one could connect a bog-standard FireWire (IEEE 1394) cable betwixt a pair of Windows boxes, and it would create a (quite fast for the time) network for them to talk on.

Addressing was automatic with RFC 3927, and names just worked too.

After that, any appropriately-shared things on one machine would be accessible on the other.
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stephenr 674 days ago
This exact functionality works out of the box with macOS and a thunderbolt cable (I believe going back to TB1, but I've only tested with TB3).

Does Windows not auto-provision thunderbolt networking automatically?

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