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Chapter 26. Managing Network Connections > Adding a PLIP Interface
Adding a PLIP Interface
The Parallel Line Internet Protocol (PLIP) is similar to SLIP because it provides a point-to-point connection between two machines. The difference between the two is that PLIP uses the parallel ports on the computer to provide higher speeds (megabytes per second versus megabytes per minute).
Configuring a PLIP interface
Click the PLIP checkbox and Accept.
Click the Networking tab to bring up the PLIP configuration options, which are shown in Figure 26.5.
Click the Local IP field and type the local machine's IP address.
Click the Remote IP field and type the remote machine's IP address.
If you want the PLIP interface to be active when your machine boots, select the Activate Interface at Boot Time option.
A new entry, plip0, will be added to the system. Click Accept and Quit to exit from linuxconf.
Use the command ifup plip0 to bring the interface online.
Test the PLIP interface by pinging the remote machine. For example, if the remote machine's IP address is 10.8.11.5, ping would produce the following output:
kanchi 1572$ ping -c 3 10.8.11.5 PING 10.8.11.5 (10.8.11.5): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.8.11.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.7 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.11.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.7 ms 64 bytes from 10.8.11.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.7 ms --- 10.8.11.5 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet_loss round-trip min/avg/max = 1.7/1.7/1.7 ms
If your output looks similar, your PLIP interface is working properly.
