Hi, i was trying to connect two computers using a parallel cable. i referred to "plip howto"... installed the modules required parport, parport_pc(irq=7 io=0x378) and plip. configured the interfaces...on both the computers as 192.168.2.1/32 and 192.168.2.2/32 respectively. there is no default route on both the computers. and lp modules on them are also removed, just in case. problem: they still cant ping each other. 1: while pinging, both machines say plip0:transmit timeout(1,7f) note: the "7f" (on different ping commands) changes to various numbers like 80, 5f etc... 2: the cable is (probably!) fine, and is as according to the serial howto document. infact i just bought another new cable, just to make it sure.. and it gives me the same error. 3: One more thing to note is that the first cable ( had a wire disconnected and "after correction") started giving indications that there were "erroraneous transmissions" across the cable, since both the machines printed (to stderr) "receipt timeout" on each successive ping from the opposite machine... 4: when i do "ifconfig", the "Link Encap:" for the plip0 interface is given as "Ethernet" , when a regular PPP link has it as "Point-to-Point" . is there anything wrong there?? i know, i must be bonkers to be posting such a long question.. sorry for that then, but i guess i banged my head a bit too much on this one..!! i hope someone could help ... thanx anyways.. vavi ------------------------------------------------ The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-delhi
