PLIP

["Andrew Ball" <aball%students.prairiestate.edu@localhost>]

Hello,

    I have two machines hooked together via a PLIP cable and
have built kernels for them that include plip(4) support. On
one machine I type...

      ifconfig plip0 192.168.3.1 192.168.3.2 -link0 up

               ...and on the other, I type...

      ifconfig plip0 192.168.3.2 192.168.3.1 -link0 up

        ...I'm not sure what (if any) route incantations are
required, but if I try from either end of the link to ping
the other, I get...

          plip0: Too many errors, going off-line.

    I've tried a couple of different PLIP cables with the
same result.  How can I diagnose the nature of the errors
that are mentioned?

Thanks,
  - Andy Ball