On Feb 27, Steve Reid wrote
> I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm
> having some problems...
[...]
> It looks as if the PLIP device is not compiled into the kernel. I don't
> get any message regarding PLIP when I boot, but I _know_ I have PLIP
> compiled into the kernel. I've tried building a new kernel a couple of
> times and made sure to compile PLIP in. A grep of my .config file shows
> the CONFIG_PLIP=y line.
>
> The system does notice lp1 and lp2 at boot, but says (polling) instead of
> using an IRQ.
If you want to use PLIP, you must make sure that lp is compiled as a module.
This is documented in the PLIP minihowto, /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/PLIP.gz if you
have the doc-linux package installed; see also drivers/net/README[12].PLIP
in the kernel source.
I'm attaching my plip-connect script.
HTH,
Ray
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#! /bin/sh
set -e
# This assumes that both local and remote agree on their /etc/hosts
# data for PLIP use (hosts "one" and "two"),
# e.g. 10.0.0.23 one and 10.0.0.42 two
usage () {
cat >& 2 << 'END'
Usage: plipconnect [one|two] [up|down]
[one|two]: hostname
[up|down]: desired connection state
END
exit 1
}
if test $1 = "one" ; then
local="one"
remote="two"
else if test $1 = "two" ; then
local="two"
remote="one"
else
usage
fi
fi
if test $2 = "up" ; then
insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net/plip.o || true
sleep 1
ifconfig plip1 $local pointopoint $remote up
route add $remote
# Don't mess up the console with timeouts
start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --pidfile /var/run/klogd.pid || true
sleep 2
start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --pidfile /var/run/klogd.pid \
--exec /sbin/klogd -- -c 3 || true
route add $remote
ifconfig
echo ""
route
echo "up done"
if grep -q '^/' /etc/exports ; then
echo "You have entries in /etc/exports; assuming NFS daemons are active"
else
echo "You have no entries in /etc/exports; you have to start NFS daemons
manually"
fi
else
if test $2 = "down" ; then
ifconfig plip1 down || true
/etc/init.d/sysklogd restart || true
# route del $remote
ifconfig
echo ""
route
echo "down done."
else
usage
fi
fi
