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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.mrtc.org!news.he.net!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.thenet.net!azure.xara.net!xara.net!Aladdin!aladdin.net!ns2.aladdin.net!RMplc!yama.mcc.ac.uk!hydraulix.bangor.ac.uk!manager From: Ian <ian@sees.bangor.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Query: PLIP connection. Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:19:26 +0000 Organization: University of Wales, Bangor. Lines: 11 Message-ID: <33369B7E.41C67EA6@sees.bangor.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: andypc3.sees.bangor.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37695 Hi there, I would like to connect up two FreeBSD PC's via the parallel ports as this will give me a better data transfer rate than a serial connection. The FAQ and the Handbook talk about SLIP and PPP but only mention PLIP in asides. Can anyone give me any hints and tips as to how to go about this? thanks Ian