On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Andreas Florath wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:24:20 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Andreas Florath <florath@stochastik.rwth-aachen.de>
> To: netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Is is possible: PPP via parallel port?
> 
> 
> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> 	I want to connect my good old Amiga running NetBSD 1.2 with my
> I*T*L Linux machine, but I don't want to spend about 300 DM ($200) for
> an Amiga-Ethernet card.  One alternative is to use SLIP (over a seriel
> line) but this is very slow (~38kBaud).  Now I think about a parallel
> connection.  Is this possible?  Is this the same procedure than
> seriell but use the device /dev/par instead of /dev/tty00?
> 
> 	Andre
> 
> 
Well, linux supports PLIP for this purpose, but you would need to recompile
your kernel.
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