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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:35:10 +0800 (WST)
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
To: Mike Holling <myke@cyberport.net>
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Subject: Re: PLIP between FreeBSD and Linux?
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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
> 
>