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Re: LapLink



YBd>> Although I haven't tried that YET, there is plip - Parallel Line IP
YBd>> standard in the kernel. Look at NET-3-HOWTO in you /usr/doc/HOWTO or
YBd>> you favourite LDP mirror. However, the docs say it gives around
YBd>> 20KB/s - very slow compared to new programs that use 2 ECP or EPP
YBd>> ports. 

PLIP works excellent via parallel port cable. You connect them, put two 
point-to-point interfaces and voila! But it's slow and eats CPU -
if you put NFS there, you really can see disk operations on your processor
meter :). And if one of them is 386 (as it was when I tried it), data
transfer via PLIP slows it to *crawl*.
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