On 29 Feb 00, at 15:25, Edward Schernau wrote:
> Anyone have experience with this?
Hi Edward,
I have very recent, albeit frustrating experience with PLIP. It was
frustrating because I got it to work once without knowing why, and
then it stopped working. I haven't been able to get it working since.
I set the parallel ports on both machines to "bi-directional" mode
(not EPP). I used a "Laplink" cable from Best Buy. I had to add
"alias parport_lowlevel parportpc io=0x378 irq=7" to
/etc/conf.modules. Then,
# modprobe plip
# ifconfig plip0 machine_im_on pointopoint other_machine
activated the link. This example may not be exactly correct; I tried
many different versions of ifconfig before getting it to work and I
don't remember which worked. At one time or another I had added
"arp" and/or "netmask 255.255.255.0" to the ifconfig command line.
When it was working I got roughly 38KB/sec (as reported by the ftp
client). When it wasn't working, pinging the other end of the PLIP
link would hang and never time out. Running tcpdump at the other
end showed icmp echo requests coming over the cable, but the
response apparently never made it back.
Check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/parport.txt,
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Plip (?), and /usr/doc/HOWTO/NET3-4-
HOWTO.
Hope this helps a bit.
Eric
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