Re: PLIP setup?
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Steve Reid wrote: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device It looks as if the PLIP device is not compiled into the kernel. I don't get any message regarding PLIP when I boot, but I _know_ I have PLIP compiled into the kernel. Compile both lp and plip as modules- lp otherwise takes priority and since only one device per port is allowed, plip will not exist. You can make an ugly hack to kernel sources if you wish. With the 11 wire plip cable on port 0x278 (IRQ 5), I connect machines edp0 and edp1 (.1 and .2) as follows: /sbin/insmod plip io=0x278 irq=5 /sbin/ifconfig plip0 arp 10.0.0.1 pointopoint 10.0.0.2 up /sbin/route add -net 10.0.0.0 plip0 /sbin/route add -host 10.0.0.2 plip0 edp0 is the gateway machine (short.circuit.com) and the above is used on edp1 with the difference of .1 and .2 being swapped around in the command lines. In addition, edp0 is defined as the gateway on edp1: /sbin/route add default gw 10.0.0.1 plip0 Slow machines like mine need klogd -c4 to stop plip errors from going to the screen. To take the network down: /sbin/ifconfig plip0 down rmmod plip -!-
Re: PLIP setup?
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Spineux Alain wrote: You can't include PLIP and the printer driver together You can with separate ports and module support.. #/etc/conf.modules # [..] options lp io=0x3bc,0x378 options plip io=0x278;irq=5 This puts a printer on your plip network. -!-
Re: PLIP setup?
At 06:47 PM 2/28/97 -0800, Jim wrote: Hmmm - how fast is PLIP? Are you able to give me some stats on FTP's and ping times? I'm wondering if it's faster than 115200 serial... Regards Compile both lp and plip as modules- lp otherwise takes priority and since only one device per port is allowed, plip will not exist. You can make an ugly hack to kernel sources if you wish. With the 11 wire plip cable on port 0x278 (IRQ 5), I connect machines edp0 and edp1 (.1 and .2) as follows: /sbin/insmod plip io=0x278 irq=5 /sbin/ifconfig plip0 arp 10.0.0.1 pointopoint 10.0.0.2 up /sbin/route add -net 10.0.0.0 plip0 /sbin/route add -host 10.0.0.2 plip0 edp0 is the gateway machine (short.circuit.com) and the above is used on edp1 with the difference of .1 and .2 being swapped around in the command lines. In addition, edp0 is defined as the gateway on edp1: /sbin/route add default gw 10.0.0.1 plip0 Slow machines like mine need klogd -c4 to stop plip errors from going to the screen. To take the network down: /sbin/ifconfig plip0 down rmmod plip -!- -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au ___
Re: PLIP setup?
Hmmm - how fast is PLIP? Are you able to give me some stats on FTP's and ping times? I'm wondering if it's faster than 115200 serial... It sure is! I haven't tried FTP yet, but `ping -s 8` times look good: PLIP 3.6 ms 33.6k modem 100.3 ms 10base-T 0.5 ms Jim pointed me to the mini-HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/PLIP.gz which has all the necessary instructions. I've currently got plip and lp compiled into the kernel and working at the same time, thanks to simple instructions in the mini-howto.
Re: PLIP setup?
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: Hmmm - how fast is PLIP? Are you able to give me some stats on FTP's and ping times? I'm wondering if it's faster than 115200 serial... I don't do well with my slow machine (web crawler indeed) but even it manages 15 KB/s using ncftp. Andrea tells me his setup does 40 KB/s or thereabouts. Curious as to how well this compares to a null-modem serial connection.. This weekend I was planning to look into nfsroot and try to get the other machine to boot up over the PLIP connection. Just for kicks, you know. Does anyone have any info on doing this? -!-
Re: PLIP setup?
On Feb 27, Steve Reid wrote
I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm
having some problems...
[...]
It looks as if the PLIP device is not compiled into the kernel. I don't
get any message regarding PLIP when I boot, but I _know_ I have PLIP
compiled into the kernel. I've tried building a new kernel a couple of
times and made sure to compile PLIP in. A grep of my .config file shows
the CONFIG_PLIP=y line.
The system does notice lp1 and lp2 at boot, but says (polling) instead of
using an IRQ.
If you want to use PLIP, you must make sure that lp is compiled as a module.
This is documented in the PLIP minihowto, /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/PLIP.gz if you
have the doc-linux package installed; see also drivers/net/README[12].PLIP
in the kernel source.
I'm attaching my plip-connect script.
HTH,
Ray
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#! /bin/sh
set -e
# This assumes that both local and remote agree on their /etc/hosts
# data for PLIP use (hosts one and two),
# e.g. 10.0.0.23 one and 10.0.0.42 two
usage () {
cat 2 'END'
Usage: plipconnect [one|two] [up|down]
[one|two]: hostname
[up|down]: desired connection state
END
exit 1
}
if test $1 = one ; then
local=one
remote=two
else if test $1 = two ; then
local=two
remote=one
else
usage
fi
fi
if test $2 = up ; then
insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net/plip.o || true
sleep 1
ifconfig plip1 $local pointopoint $remote up
route add $remote
# Don't mess up the console with timeouts
start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --pidfile /var/run/klogd.pid || true
sleep 2
start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --pidfile /var/run/klogd.pid \
--exec /sbin/klogd -- -c 3 || true
route add $remote
ifconfig
echo
route
echo up done
if grep -q '^/' /etc/exports ; then
echo You have entries in /etc/exports; assuming NFS daemons are active
else
echo You have no entries in /etc/exports; you have to start NFS daemons
manually
fi
else
if test $2 = down ; then
ifconfig plip1 down || true
/etc/init.d/sysklogd restart || true
#route del $remote
ifconfig
echo
route
echo down done.
else
usage
fi
fi
Re: PLIP setup?
I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm having some problems... I get a pair or error messages when I try to configure the plip interface using ifconfig: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device The two machines are both running Debian. Both produce the same error messages. I've tried plip and plip[0-2] for interface names. No luck. I used 'plip1' for the normal printer port (lpt1 for dos) It looks as if the PLIP device is not compiled into the kernel. I don't get any message regarding PLIP when I boot, but I _know_ I have PLIP compiled into the kernel. I've tried building a new kernel a couple of times and made sure to compile PLIP in. A grep of my .config file shows the CONFIG_PLIP=y line. The system does notice lp1 and lp2 at boot, but says (polling) instead of using an IRQ. You can't include PLIP and the printer driver together Any ideas??? -- Spineux Alain == Spineux Alain E-MAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] INSTITUT STEVIN Catholic University of LouvainFAX: 32-10-472501 PLACE DU LEVANT 2 PHONE : 32-10-472516 B-1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE (BELGIUM) ===
Re: PLIP setup?
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Spineux Alain wrote: I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm having some problems... I get a pair or error messages when I try to configure the plip interface using ifconfig: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device The two machines are both running Debian. Both produce the same error messages. I've tried plip and plip[0-2] for interface names. No luck. I used 'plip1' for the normal printer port (lpt1 for dos) You can't include PLIP and the printer driver together Hmmm... I'm not too sure if this will work, but I've been examining a module that allows resource sharing of the parrallel port between devices. The name is called parbus and it supposedly allows sharing between Zip drives and the printer. I've never gotten it to work, but perhaps if you look at their home page (do an altavista for parbus) they may have something about sharing resources between the parralel for printing and PLIP, perhaps an alpha driver or something for the PLIP part. Also, I've heard rumors that the 2.1.x kernels are eventually going to have methods to resolve resource sharing problems, but I don't know how far that has gotten. Will (The above was not intended to be a flame, if people are offended by above comments, I sincerely apologize beforehand :) )
