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- magPLIP - SANA II compliant PLIP device driver for AmiTCP/IP, Envoy,
- AS225 and other networking packages
-
- (C) Copyright 1993-1994 Oliver Wagner, Michael Balzer
- (C) Copyright 1995 Jan Kratochvil & Martin Mares
- (C) Copyright 1995-1996 Marius Groeger
- All Rights Reserved.
-
- Changes have been made by Stéphane Zermatten to the driver to connect
- a LinuxBox to an Amiga via a LapLing cable, based on the release 37.8.
-
- This modified version (38.x) is distributed with the permission of
- the author, Marius Groeger and compiled by Stefan Ruppert.
-
- NOTE: The main addition to the 37.7 version is the linplip.device
- driver, which can connect to a LinuxBox. Also there are two
- bugfixes for the magplip.device driver, which fixes a
- problem with Miami and possible system crash for big file
- transfers.
-
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- IMPORTANT NOTE!
- PLEASE READ THE UPGRADE INFORMATION IN THE SUPPLIED AMIGAGUIDE® DOCUMENT!
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- This is another PLIP device driver. PLIP means Parallel Line Internet
- Protocol. Originally based upon the plip.device released by Oliver
- Wagner and Michael Balzer, this version has been completely rewritten.
-
- The main distinguishing features to the original version include
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- * Much more line security through machine independent timeout handling
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- * Option to omit CRC checks
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- * MTU 256 Bytes to 128KBytes
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- * SANA-II special statistic counters
-
- * Much better configurable, especially with regard to slow systems
-
- * Major code cleanup, including the removal of assembler fragments,
- globals, errors
-
- * Several protocol stacks may use magPLIP simultaneously
-
- * Installer script
-
- * AmigaGuide® online documentation
-
- Please read also the supplied AmigaGuide® document to obtain further
- information about the installation and usage of magPLIP.
-
- You should install this software package by using the supplied Installer
- script. If you have any suggestions or comments please contact the
- following people :
-
- Linux related: Stéphane Zermatten <Stephane.Zermatten@earthling.net>
- Amiga related: Stefan Ruppert <ruppert@amigaworld.com> (mainly bug fixes)
- General concept related: Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
-
- NOTE: Marius has stopped development on the Amiga, so don't bother him
- about the V38 release.
-
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-
- Release 38.1 (compiled by Stefan Ruppert)
-
- * added a version of the driver (linplip.device) that will
- connect an Amiga to a PC running Linux, using a LapLink cable.
- The driver for the Linux side is also included.
- By Stéphane Zermatten.
- * bugfix: the command S2_ONLINE now returns 0 (success) if the
- device is already online.
- * bugfix: now works also for large file tranfers, no system crashes
- anymore.
-
- Release 37.8
-
- * bugfix: magPLIP can be used by multiple protocol stacks simultaneously.
-
- Release 37.7
-
- * Improved packet type tracking
-
- * SANA-II special statistic counters
-
- * Improved documentation
-
- * schematic drawing included that shows the cable wiring
-
- Release 37.5
-
- * on early startup time the MTU reported to protocol was not yet
- the customized value but the default setting; At least Envoy
- had problems with this bug
-
- * Frame buffer handling is now done dynamically, MTU can be set to
- values up to 128K. A large MTU increases performance for large
- data transfers such as in a file-server system.
-
- * Code more robust against initialization errors
-
- * ENV: settings are better checked for validity
-
- Release 37.4
-
- * Some documentation changes
- * minor changes in the transfer code
-
- Release 37.3
-
- * Timeout handling is now system independent and gives a great
- improvement to configuration and line security
- * ARBITRATIONDELAY no longer used, but supported for old config-files
-
- Release 37.2
-
- * Significantly better performance (transfer routines rewritten in
- assembly language)
- * internal code cleanup
-
- Initial Release 37.1
-
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-
- This package is Freeware, but not in the public domain.
-
- It's strictly forbidden to include this archive in any kind of software
- collection except Fred Fish's AmigaLibrary, Meeting Pearls CD's, Aminet,
- Aminet CD's and BBS fileareas.
-
- This software is provided "as is". No representations or warranties are
- made with respect to the accuracy, reliability, performance, currentness,
- or operation of this software, and all use is at your own risk.
-
- This doesn't apply to the linux kernel patch (Linux/plip.c), which is
- distributed under the GNU Public Licence. (SZ)
-
-