From: sprave@gonzo.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joachim Sprave) Subject: Summary: PLIP Date: 30 Apr 1993 07:50:05 GMT
Hi Linuxers,
a few days ago I asked for the status of PLIP (parallel line IP). I tried
the driver
I downloaded from mcc (/pub/linux/newether) with no success. John
(jwromei@cs.vu.nl)
sent me his version of this driver. This one works for me, except for some
timing
problems.
I asked Donald (becker@super.org), the author of the original driver, about
the state
of development. He answered
> While it's not "officially distributed", the idea is that experienced
> people will try it.
> [...]
> Neither T. Thorn nor I have time to work on it right now. (He's busy
> finishing classes, and I'm merging my other drivers with the new net
> code.) It will probably be released with the new net code, or just after May
> 15, whichever is sooner.
John has damaged his printer ports while testing, so he won't continue PLIPing,
but he will send his patches to Donald, who then can merge the 2 versions
of the
driver.
The current version doesn't use bi-directional ports, but transfers 4 bits in
parallel by using status lines for input and data lines for output. You need a
parallel Laplink (R) cable, but wiring is documented in the source, so you
can make
it by yourself. The transfer speed is about 30KB/sec., and
ping/ftp/telnet/nfs/X11
are happy with PLIP. Well, once it is stable, it will be a very cheap and
reasonable
fast (20-30kB/sec) point-to-point network.
Joachim
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