Is it possible to IP masquerade through PLIP? George At 04:33 AM 5/28/99 -0500, Weston Sewell wrote: >I've been trying to set up PLIP, because I don't wanna buy two more net >cards, and it'd be great to get these three OLD pc's sitting on my floor >to talk to each other :) > >Anyway, when I try to load the module "insmod plip" or "modprobe plip" >it complains about the device being in use or already open. With >"lsmod" I noticed a module "paraport", and two supporting modules >"paraport_probe" and "paraport_pc". I assume these are Parallel port >drivers for the PC style parallel port ?(I am on a PC) If I rmmod these >three, or any combination of them, and then try to "modprobe plip" it >complains about different paraport functions "can't find >paraport_thisfunction". > >I've looked in /proc/devices and there's no listing for any lp devices >so I'm clear there. I Deleted the one entry for a printer through the >control panel for RH6, but still no luck. Is there anywhere else I >can/should look for something still using the parallel port? Any other >ideas? > >I... I have a modem in each box, is there a method for using directly >connected modems to network two systems? I'm not looking for a fast >connection, at least not at this point. Just something other than the >ONE floppy drive I have > >weston > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
