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- PLIP
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- A Parallel Line IP SANA2 Device Driver
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- by Michael Balzer & Oliver Wagner
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- *** BETA-RELEASE 38.11 ***
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- 1. Overview
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- PLIP is a network device driver conforming to the SANA2 standard. It
- allows linking of two Amigas using their parallel ports. Transfer speed
- is around 50 kbyte/sec. The complete low level transfer protocol is
- integrated in the device driver, including port arbitration handshaking and
- interrupt driven reads. Although the transfer process itself is cpu
- intensive, the device needs no cpu resources when no transfer is in
- progress.
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- PLIP is intended as a low-cost networking solution, since the capabilities
- of the parallel hardware are somewhat limited. However, it gives much
- better results than SLIP and leaves the serial port free.
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- 2. Installation
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- Just copy plip.device to devs:networks. See the documentation of your
- networking package for further installation steps.
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- Since PLIP only allows two hosts to be linked together, addressing is
- limited to 1 Bit. One host uses plip.device, Unit 0, the other
- plip.device, Unit 1. The device will not work if both machines use the
- same unit number.
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- 3. Cable
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- D0-D7/BUSY/POUT to D0-D7/BUSY/POUT
- ACK to STROBE
- STROBE to ACK
- GND to GND
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- Note that this is *NOT* the ParNet connection standard used by several old
- parallel drivers.
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- 4. Beta
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- PLIP is not tested yet, so use on your own risk. Please send bug reports
- to:
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- o.wagner@aworld.aworld.de
- m.balzer@aworld.aworld.de
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- Please exactly state the machine configuration which causes PLIP to fail.
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- 5. Copyright
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- PLIP is (C) Copyright 1993-94 Oliver Wagner & Michael Balzer, All Rights
- Reserved. You are granted a limited copying license to distribute this
- version of plip for private purposes only.
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- 6. History
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- V37.11
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- - small speedups in transmission handshaking
- - now uses utility library for parsing the buffer managment taglist
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- V38.10
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- - fixed bug with configuration during startup
- - default MTU reduced to 1024 bytes
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- V38.11 (beta)
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- - added tracktype support (beta) in order to make PLIP work
- in conjunction with AmiTCP
- - removed autoinit for dos.library
-