Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 18:45:02 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nsouch@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding tcpdump and plip Message-ID: <199902080245.SAA09339@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "08 Feb 1999 03:01:50 %2B0100." <xzp679dbqlt.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> writes: > > > I'd really, *really* like to rip out the lpt driver, since its > > > functionality is completely duplicated by the nlpt and lpip drivers, > > > which seem pretty stable now. > > This was actually meant to happen a while back, and I should be wearing > > the pointy hat for it. The last stumbling block was lack of linux-mode > > compatibility in lpip, which was fixed ages ago. > > Plip has always had Linux compatibility mode, since the code for plip > was taken from lpt, which has had it for at least a year - way longer > than ppbus has existed anyway. lpip didn't correctly interoperate with Linux PLIP - we proved this at Comdex this year. Nicolas subsequently found and fixed the bug (see rev 1.7 of if_lpip.c). > One interesting anectode is that a friend of mine (Per Kristian > Gjermshus, one of the authors of LXR) tried to use PLIP between his > home box and his laptop (both RedHat Linux boxen). No workee. His > Linux laptop would talk to my FreeBSD laptop just fine, but refused to > talk to other Linux boxen, so apparently it's Linux that lacks a Linux > compatibility mode, not FreeBSD :) *laugh* -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199902080245.SAA09339>