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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux - FreeBSD linkup using PLIP
Date: 24 Sep 1995 23:05:34 +0100
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S.T.Chang-The Night Breed <chang@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>	I have just recently installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a 386DX40. I have
>been trying very hard to get it talk to another Linux 486 boxi via PLIP. Before
>installing FreeBSD on the 386DX40, I was running Linux on both boxes linked
>up via PLIP and sharing disk through NFS happily. 
>
>	Is the PLIP implementation compatible on both these platforms??
>Or I have missed out something?

There has been a patch posted (submitted via send-pr, to be exact)
that arranges the FreeBSD PLIP interface to be Crynwr and thus Linux
compatible.  No positive response has been gotten (neither by the
author of FreeBSD PLIP, Poul-Henning Kamp, nor by me -- i've once been
asking for testers) so far.

You are welcome to test it (send me a private mail) under a single
condition: you have to send me a mail saying "Yes" or "No" once you
are ready.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)