On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> ..
> > This is probably off-topic, but I hope you won't mind. I need
> > (desperately) suggestions for a parallel port NIC (RJ-45) that will work
> > with Linux. I need to join a laptop with a LAN, and both PCMCIA ports
> > aren't working. It would be great if supplier suggestions came, too.
> > Unfortunately my supplier doesn't sell parallel port NICs. :(
>
> You can try PLIP (parallel line IP). basically it turns your printer port
> into an interface! you will need a parallel laplink cable between your two
> boxes.
>
Your maximum bandwidth here is of the order of 50 kbytes/second, and both
computers will be useless for anything other than the link's activity. I
use this to transfer files between my laptop and desktop and notice that
transferring a large file via FTP over PLIP will saturate both computers'
CPU's nearly to the point of unusability. Both ends have ECP enabled and
should be using DMA, nevertheless I get load averages of 4+ in the course
of file transfer... Any help on this?
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