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(2nd attempt. 1st bounced.)
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Hi again
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About my previous mail: I've looked into parallel.asm, and I'm
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rather confused. Looks like the code agrees with you, but not
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the protocol description preceeding it?? I got to look more
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careful, but it wont be for a while (approx a week).
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>From plip.c (v0.04):
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>make one yourself. The wiring is:
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> INIT 16 - 16 SLCTIN 17 - 17
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> GROUND 25 - 25
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> D0->ERROR 2 - 15 15 - 2
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I saw you removed 1 and 14 from the cable description, but not
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16 and 17. Why is that?
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Have been succesful in getting parallel.com working (the Messy-Loss
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software). Using the pksend on the sender and pkall/pkwatch/whatnot
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gives me a hung receiver. (The cable works, I've tried unet11, a DOS
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cheap-net prog.)
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Using PLIP v0.03 and trying to ping the other end gives
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88 timeout 88 timeout....(more) 2386 bogous packet size, dropped
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on the receiver, and on the sender lots of timeout, but of
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course I don't know how much is supposed to work.
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The following to something I wrote when I should have gone to bed a
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long time ago. Use it for whatever you like, or dump it in the bin. ;^)
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/Tommy
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Becker [& Co] provdly presents PLIP
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What is PLIP?
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=============
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PLIP is Parallel Line IP, that is, the transportation of IP packages
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over a parallel port. In the case of a PC, the obvious choice is the
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printer port. PLIP is a non-standard, but [can use] uses the standard
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LapLink null-printer cable [can also work in turbo mode, with a PLIP
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cable]. [The protocol used to pack IP packages, is a simple one
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initiated by Crynwr.]
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Advantages of PLIP
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==================
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It's cheap, it's availble everywhere, and it's easy.
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The PLIP cable is all that's needed to connect two Linux boxes, and it
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can be build for very bucks.
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Connecting two Linux boxes takes only a seconds decision and a few
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minutes work, no need to search for a [supported] netcard. This might
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even be especially important in the case of notebooks, where netcard
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are not easily availble.
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Not requiring a netcard also means that apart from connecting the
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cables, everything else is software configuration [which in principle
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could be made very easy.]
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Disadvantages of PLIP
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=====================
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Doesn't work over a modem, like SLIP and PPP. Limited range, 15 m.
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Can only be used to connect three (?) Linux boxes. Doesn't connect to
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an exiting ethernet. Isn't standard (not even de facto standard, like
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SLIP).
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Performens
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==========
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PLIP easily outperforms ethernet cards....(ups, I was dreaming, but
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it *is* getting late. EOB)
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