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Date:      Thu, 8 Jun 2000 12:44:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: parallel cable IP is too slow?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0006081242580.26971-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0006081203250.26845-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> 
> I have two FreeBSD 4.0 boxes connected via a parallel cable interface lp0.
> One of them uses PPP over phone line to connect to the outside world.  If
> I do a ftp/telnet on the PPP machine, it works fine.  If I do ftp/telnet
> on the other machine, it times out.  I am wondering whether IP over
> parallel cable is just too slow that it can only connect two machines
> directly.
> 
The problem is not that the parallel link is slow. I have been able to do
telnet from the other machine.  I am still trying to find out the real
reason.

-Zhihui



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