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Re: PLIP woes! SLIP answering phone.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Jun 12 06:49:59 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: chapman@u.washington.edu (Randy Chapman)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:58:30 +0100 (BST)
Cc: m-ke0082@SPARKY.CS.NYU.EDU, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91j.950611145053.26093B-100000@carson.u.washington.edu> from "Randy Chapman" at Jun 11, 95 02:52:57 pm
> What software is running on the 386? With that little ram, I'm assuming
> its not Linux? I've heard that the crynwyr drivers are -not-
> compatible with Linux plip.... (but i might justas easily be wrong :)
The current ones are compatible. Linux 1.0.x PLIP isnt compatible with anything,
and older PLIP.COM dos drivers use FD:FD:xx:... addresses which being a multicast
gives you working ping but not telnet.
Alan
