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Re: plip progress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Blundell)
Thu Jun 15 09:14:24 1995
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 12:39:48 +0100 (BST)
From: Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>
To: Ken Estes <m-ke0082@SPARKY.CS.NYU.EDU>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9506140445.AA28232@SPARKY.CS.NYU.EDU>
On Wed, 14 Jun 1995, Ken Estes wrote:
> I had a strange plip thought. Since plip appears to run ethernet,
> could I wire together a bunch of plip cables and run several (3-10)
> machines on a cheap network? I assume that all the length
You can't connect more than two machines with one cable. If you have two
parallel ports on each machine, though, there's nothing to stop you
daisy-chaining them all together with PLIP links.
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