2 (2nd attempt. 1st bounced.)
5 About my previous mail: I've looked into parallel.asm, and I'm
6 rather confused. Looks like the code agrees with you, but not
7 the protocol description preceding it?? I got to look more
8 careful, but it wont be for a while (approx a week).
12 >make one yourself. The wiring is:
13 > INIT 16 - 16 SLCTIN 17 - 17
15 > D0->ERROR 2 - 15 15 - 2
17 I saw you removed 1 and 14 from the cable description, but not
18 16 and 17. Why is that?
20 Have been successful in getting parallel.com working (the Messy-Loss
21 software). Using the pksend on the sender and pkall/pkwatch/whatnot
22 gives me a hung receiver. (The cable works, I've tried unet11, a DOS
25 Using PLIP v0.03 and trying to ping the other end gives
26 88 timeout 88 timeout....(more) 2386 bogus packet size, dropped
27 on the receiver, and on the sender lots of timeout, but of
28 course I don't know how much is supposed to work.
30 The following to something I wrote when I should have gone to bed a
31 long time ago. Use it for whatever you like, or dump it in the bin. ;^)
35 Becker [& Co] proudly presents PLIP
40 PLIP is Parallel Line IP, that is, the transportation of IP packages
41 over a parallel port. In the case of a PC, the obvious choice is the
42 printer port. PLIP is a non-standard, but [can use] uses the standard
43 LapLink null-printer cable [can also work in turbo mode, with a PLIP
44 cable]. [The protocol used to pack IP packages, is a simple one
50 It's cheap, it's available everywhere, and it's easy.
52 The PLIP cable is all that's needed to connect two Linux boxes, and it
53 can be build for very bucks.
55 Connecting two Linux boxes takes only a seconds decision and a few
56 minutes work, no need to search for a [supported] netcard. This might
57 even be especially important in the case of notebooks, where netcard
58 are not easily available.
60 Not requiring a netcard also means that apart from connecting the
61 cables, everything else is software configuration [which in principle
62 could be made very easy.]
67 Doesn't work over a modem, like SLIP and PPP. Limited range, 15 m.
68 Can only be used to connect three (?) Linux boxes. Doesn't connect to
69 an exiting ethernet. Isn't standard (not even de facto standard, like
75 PLIP easily outperforms ethernet cards....(ups, I was dreaming, but
76 it *is* getting late. EOB)