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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.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Query: PLIP connection. Date: 25 Mar 1997 00:21:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5h75qb$ta@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33369B7E.41C67EA6@sees.bangor.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37728 Ian <ian@sees.bangor.ac.uk> wrote: > 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? Not very different than SLIP. The interfaces are named `lp0'. As soon as you ifconfig them, these lines will enter PLIP mode, and will be made unavailable to the normal line printer driver. Section 2.10 of the FAQ describes the cable (it's also on top of /sys/i386/isa/lpt.c). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)