Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:35:10 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> To: Mike Holling <myke@cyberport.net> Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: PLIP between FreeBSD and Linux? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970310173144.24669A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970309145913.5167A-100000@phluffy.cyberport.net>
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When you bring up interfaces in Linux it doesn't actually add routes for them. So try this : route add -host <destination IP> gw plip0 on the linux box. Cya. Adrian. On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Mike Holling wrote: > I've been using PLIP (parallel cable IP) between FreeBSD boxes > happily for a while. Now I have a Linux notebook I'd like to hook to my > desktop FreeBSD box via PLIP. The desktop box is 2.1.0. I swiped > 'lpt.c' from the 2.1.7 distribution (which, according to the comments, > now has a Linux compatability mode) and made a new kernel. Doing > something like > > ifconfig lp0 link0 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 > > doesn't do the trick. Looking at the "plip" device on the Linux box I > can see the "packets received" count going up, matching the pings I'm > sending from the FreeBSD box. However, the pings are never successfully > returned. The same notebook running FreeBSD worked fine, so it's not a > hardware problem. I'm pretty new with linux, do I need to do anything > more than > > ifconfig plip1 pointopoint 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 > > to get it running? The linux box doesn't seem to recognize the plip > device as functional, I can neither send pings to the FreeBSD box (no > route to host) or add a route. Still, since the "packets received" > counter is going up *something* seems to be happening... > > - Mike > >
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