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Short: fast SANA-2 parallel port driver
Uploader: hal@caty.north.de (Holger Lubitz)
Author: o.wagner@aworld.aworld.de (Oliver Wagner), m.balzer@aworld.aworld.de (Michael Balzer)
Type: comm/net
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.
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.
History
V37.11
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- small speedups in transmission handshaking
- now uses utility library for parsing the buffer managment taglist
V38.10
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- fixed bug with configuration during startup
- default MTU reduced to 1024 bytes
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
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6684 4135 38.1% 04-Mar-94 12:34:32 plip.device
2171 1161 46.5% 04-Mar-94 12:37:10 plip.doc
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