Dave Ihnat writes: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:14:44PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: >> > Does anyone know if there is a program available that will allow two >> > computers to communicate over a parrallel null-modem cable? I am thinking of >> > something like direct cable connect in Win. >> >> Indeed you can setup the parallel port as a network device (plip#). You >> should have a look at the howto's (probably the Net-HOWTO). Just "cd >> /usr/share/doc/HOWTO" and "grep -ilr plip *". Then have a look at the >> relevant documents. The howto's can also be found at www.linuxdoc.org. > > That said, I guess I have to ask the first question that bubbles to > the top of _my_ mind: Why? Ethernet cards are very, very cheap (you > can probably get free 10Mbps cards) and easy to configure, parallel > transfer requires as much, or more, configuration (and, in my mind, > as a hack) than setting up mainstream TCP/IP networking, and bandwidth > and throughput are going to be terrible. > I am trying to connect an old laptop that doesn't have the ability to use an ethernet card. I though of getting one of the parrallel ethernet adapters but they are expensive and would likely give no better throughput.
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