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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!tfs.com!usenet From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@tfs.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.0 plip <-> amiga tcp? Message-ID: <D0KLH9.DGr@tfs.com> Sender: usenet@tfs.com Organization: TRW Financial Systems References: <3c4g2p$m7t@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <DFR.94Dec9182557@trout.render.com> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 01:00:45 GMT Lines: 24 dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson) wrote: > > In article <3c4g2p$m7t@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) writes: > > [snip] > > But, How can I use the parallel Interface with tcp/ip on FreeBSD > > with PLIP on my Amiga? > > > > The Problem is a cable, i think ... LapLink-Cable is needed for > > FreeBSD (uses 4 Data-Lines) and PLIP on Amiga uses 8 DataLines. > > > > Any Ideas for connects between this graet OperatingSystems? > > As far as I know, FreeBSD's parallel ip interface uses a different > protocol to PLIP. I am afraid you will have to stick with cslip or > ethernet. I wrote the PLIP stuff in FreeBSD, and made the protocol up as I went. It is easy to modify it, and if anybody wants to do so, I'm ready to help out and get the thing merged back into FreeBSD. Jump on it! Poul-Henning FreeBSD Core team phk@freebsd.org