From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 25 10:05:35 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA14631 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Dec 1994 10:05:35 -0800 Received: from glueserv1.umd.edu (glueserv1.umd.edu [129.2.70.69]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA14625 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 1994 18:05:33 GMT Received: from filter.eng.umd.edu (filter.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.124]) by glueserv1.umd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id MAA27683; Sun, 25 Dec 1994 12:57:53 -0500 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by filter.eng.umd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.4) id MAA17249; Sun, 25 Dec 1994 12:57:52 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Dec 1994 12:57:51 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Jeff Mitchell cc: Robert Floyd , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCPIP over the Parallel Port In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 25 Dec 1994, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 1994, Robert Floyd wrote: > > > I work for Savant Software Inc. We write device drivers. We have > > parallel port drivers for OS/2 and DOS that make the parallel port a > > virtual network adapter. I would like to get the interface specs to > > to TCPIP Parallel so that we could connect a BSD box to an OS/2 box. > > Doesn't OS/2/Warp do this already? It has a SLIP(-for-newbies) > interface and software. The machine is pingable (although by default no > ftpd or telnetd or thelike is provided (or possible?)) Way I understand it, there is more than one implementation of TCPIP over parallel ports, and they're not intercompatible. I think he needs to get hold of Poul Henning-Kamp, didn't he write it? > > Jeff > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (soon Freebsd 2.0) and (301) 459-2316 | n3lxx (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------