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Date:      Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:36:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      Ian Huang <ihuang@mynet.ml.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Accton EN2216 PCMCIA 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980310173440.14697A-100000@mynet.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <846.889568432@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <199803102127.OAA28214@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes:
> 
> >> > That's what lap-link cables and 3Com cards are for. :) :)
> >> 
> >> You can install FreeBSD over a lap-link cable?!  Hmm, is that the
> >> funky TCP/IP over the lpt interface thingy?  I'd forgotten about it.
> 
> Tell me how it goes, somebody told me this was broken...

I've done FreeBSD installation over parallel cable several times without
any problem. The transfer rate is around 80K/sec which is nothing compared
to ethernet but it works well. However it does take up quite a lot of CPU
power.


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