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From: Steve Bernacki Jr <steve@zip1.ziplink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: PLIP <--> Linux
Date: 9 May 1997 21:04:10 GMT
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Hello,

I've searched around for hours trying to find the answer to this
question; I know I've seen the answer posted here, but dejanews doesn't
seem to want to find it.  I have two machines set up: one runs FreeBSD
2.2.1, the other Linux (slackware, kernel 2.0.27).  I'd really like to
connect these two machines together via PLIP.  I know FreeBSD 2.2 can talk
to linux's PLIP, but I've had no luck so far.  Here's what I've been
doing.  The FreeBSD box has the ip address of .65 and the linux machine
has .66 (both in my mini subnet):

On the FreeBSD box:
	ifconfig lp0 link0 206.15.131.65 206.15.131.66

Over in linux:
	ifconfig plip1 206.15.131.66 pointopoint 206.15.131.65

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to do a blessed thing; I cannot ping one
machine from another, and linux's ifconfig plip1 shows that no packets
have traversed the interface.  What am I doing wrong here?  I've searched
high and low to no avail.

Thanks,
-S