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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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