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Date:      Tue, 21 Dec 1999 07:40:37 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Parallel-port ethernet interfaces
Message-ID:  <99Dec21.073155est.40329@border.alcanet.com.au>

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On 1999-Dec-20 02:32:06 -0700, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> wrote:
>> In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912191341190.27636-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> Brian Beattie writes:
>> : Anybody know of any currently available, that are supported by FreeBSD?
>> 
>> No.
>
>Yes.  Another FreeBSD machine, with an ethernet interface and a parallel port
>for running PLIP over.  They are kind of large, though.  ;^)

This approach is also unreliable (as in 'you will hang one of the
machines when you use it').  PLIP is broken (see i386/5698 and
kern/6099).  The change to ppbus has (if anything) made it worse
(see kern/13382).

Peter


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