If I remember correctly, PLIP has been around for a long time - even longer
than PPP.
The only problem with it is cable length. As long as the computer are
sitting more-or-less side by side, it's great. But I needed to use PPP to my
laptop 'cuz I wanted to sit on the back porch while I was tele-commuting 8-).
On 18-Mar-99 Mark A. Swope wrote:
> If I remember far enough in the thread, you were going to
> do this between Linux boxen. n.b., this doesn't work between
> Linux and DOS/Win boxes. Also, you may wish to check
> whether the version of Linux that you are using on your
> laptop (1.2.x, wasn't it?) can support PLIP. Just thumbing
> through my copy of the PLIP How-to, I didn't see a specific
> mention, but it seemed that most of the references were
> to 2.0.x kernels....
>
> mas
>
> At 01:37 PM 3/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, yenjet wrote:
>>
>>> Do you really means using a parallel port to be configured like a network
>>> card?
>>
>>Kind of, yup. Slower though, and all distance etc. limitations apply.
>>But, almost everyone has a 'free' parallel port :-)
>>
>>> Is there any other resource (URL, HOWTO, ...) which I cna refer for more
>>> detail?
>>
>>Linux parallel-port HomePage and the archive of its mailing-list:
>> http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html
>> http://www.torque.net/parport/archive/
>> (a few PLIP links in the historical part of the archive)
>>
>>PLIP Howto:
>> http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~controzz/intro_e.html#plip
>>
>>Have fun,
>>TP
>>
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