PLIP does work between Linux & DOS/win boxes and performances are not bad
compared to serial/PPP
nag
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Mark A. Swope wrote:
> If I remember far enough in the thread, you were going to
> do this between Linux boxen. n.b., this doesn't work between
> Linux and DOS/Win boxes. Also, you may wish to check
> whether the version of Linux that you are using on your
> laptop (1.2.x, wasn't it?) can support PLIP. Just thumbing
> through my copy of the PLIP How-to, I didn't see a specific
> mention, but it seemed that most of the references were
> to 2.0.x kernels....
>
> mas
>
> At 01:37 PM 3/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, yenjet wrote:
> >
> >> Do you really means using a parallel port to be configured like a network
> >> card?
> >
> >Kind of, yup. Slower though, and all distance etc. limitations apply.
> >But, almost everyone has a 'free' parallel port :-)
> >
> >> Is there any other resource (URL, HOWTO, ...) which I cna refer for more
> >> detail?
> >
> >Linux parallel-port HomePage and the archive of its mailing-list:
> > http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html
> > http://www.torque.net/parport/archive/
> > (a few PLIP links in the historical part of the archive)
> >
> >PLIP Howto:
> > http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~controzz/intro_e.html#plip
> >
> >Have fun,
> >TP
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