From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 31 13:59:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA25760 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mole.mole.org (marmot.mole.org [204.216.57.191]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25754 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:59:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mole.mole.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA01079; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:58:56 GMT Received: from meerkat.mole.org(206.197.192.110) by mole.mole.org via smap (V1.3) id sma001076; Wed Jul 31 20:58:45 1996 Received: (from mrm@localhost) by meerkat.mole.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA07944; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:58:45 -0700 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:58:45 -0700 From: "M.R.Murphy" Message-Id: <199607312058.NAA07944@meerkat.mole.org> To: graichen@axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcp/ip over lp0 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 > TCP over parallel port worked fine for me with a 486DX2/66 laptop to a p5/133. Very different speed cpu's in that case, and about 50Kbytes/sec. I think you're on the right track with the cable. Mine was an 8ft commercial molded cable. -- Mike Murphy mrm@Mole.ORG +1 619 598 5874 Better is the enemy of Good