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RE: TCP/IP over parallel or serial cable





Hey...

Why would someone want to do it through the parallel port...A pair of simple 
combo network cards and a coax cable cost less then $40..Worth the headache
I think.

Regards, 

Gil


On a aoiao 07 1998 22:37, Nimrod Zimerman [SMTP:zimerman@deskmail.com] wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 07:20:20PM +0200, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
> 
> > PLIP and PPP. PLIP works over parallel (beware - it's CPU-intensive, since
> > parallel port it's polled, so if you link 386 with Pentium, 386 may be
> > very unhappy). PPP should work over serial - isn't modem just serial
> > device?
> 
> Parallel port is polled? I wish.
> As far as I could gather from the sources, PLIP accesses the parallel port
> only upon interrupt, which should make it as CPU intensive as a network card
> (ignoring the various technical details, that is).
> 
> If you know how to make PLIP poll the parallel port and not require
> an IRQ line, please let me know, as it can greatly help me in the future.
> I'm willing to pay in speed to get this thing working in several machines
> where I don't have too much of a choice regarding the IRQ of the parallel
> port.
> 
> Actually, I even started looking into the sources wishing to implement
> something like that, but gave up shortly after when my immediate problem was
> solved otherwise.
> 
>                                                    Nimrod