From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 31 12:38:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA19564 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:38:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de (axp5.fddi5B.fu-berlin.de [160.45.5.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA19536 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mordillo (lislip.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.33.82]) by axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id VAA07018 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:37:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from graichen@localhost) by mordillo (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01052 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:30:15 +0200 From: Thomas Graichen Message-Id: <199607311930.VAA01052@mordillo> Subject: tcp/ip over lp0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:30:14 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk are there any parameters to play with for getting tcp/ip over the parallel port working - i tried it with two FreeBSD machines - one 2.1.0 and one -current but i only get very few packets through the line - here's what i get from ping -f and netstat: 2874 packets transmitted, 241 packets received, 91% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 9.805/11.167/17.566 ms root@mordillo:~> netstat -ain Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll ed0 1500 00.00.c0.19.fa.ae 566 0 640 0 0 ed0 1500 10 10.0.0.1 566 0 640 0 0 lp0 1500 1019 1 1165 2490 0 lp0 1500 10 10.0.0.3 1019 1 1165 2490 0 the other side: 4308 packets transmitted, 617 packets received, 85% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 11.202/15.700/30.719 ms root@prospero:~> netstat -ain Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll ed0 1500 00.80.ad.13.bc.7a 638 0 566 0 0 ed0 1500 10/24 10.0.0.2 638 0 566 0 0 lp0 1500 1165 4 1019 3846 0 lp0 1500 10/24 10.0.0.4 1165 4 1019 3846 0 there do these errors come from ? - is there any timing i may change to get it working or is it the hardware (i had it working between the two machines some time ago - but now some parts of them have changed - and the cable was different) ? - or can it be that the cable is too long (it's really long - about 5 meters or so) ? does anyone have any ideas ? nate ? - thanks in advance t -- thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery