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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PLIP anyone ? Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:24:02 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 11 Message-ID: <310E9A82.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <4ejj0h$su9@server1.internet-eireann.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Damian Furlong <damian@furlong.ie> Damian Furlong wrote: > > The INSTALL.TXT for Release 2.1 recommends PLIP over SLIP in certain > situations. Does anyone have any info on how to set up a PLIP connection ? Use a standard `laplink' cable to hook the two machines together, then ifconfig the lp0 device with the appropriate values. Needless to say, this only works between two FreeBSD machines. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project