TCP/IP over Parallel Port?

[blobrana]

If i  remember correctly the serial port can cope with 115k , er, which is pretty fast for an Internet connection...
What you need is PLIP support (IP over parallel) , for the pc side while AmiTCP will cope on the amiga side.
http://www.cloanto.com/kb/3-135.html
http://sruppert.dnsalias.net/amiga/magPLIP.html magPLIP.....

it will only be possible with PC printer ports that are ECp (  bidirectional).
try this on aminet:

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/info/www/dirs/aminet/comm/net/paradise.readme readme.

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/info/www/dirs/aminet/comm/net/paradise.lha paradise.lha.

Basically you could program ANY port to output IP data.... :-D

good luck.

[blobrana]

magplip37.8.lha is a  PLIP device driver for AmiTCP/IP...
Just have  a look for downloads with `plip` in their names, and download the device.... :-D
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/info/www/dirs/comm_net.html
 i`m not sure with amitcp but you could edit the :
amitcp:db/amitcp.config  file (?)

[blobrana]

Yea i suspect the CIA chips deal with the ports and they do get fried if you fit a really old PC to the parallel port ( ie non bi directional)...

Don`t worry about that though... :-D
i remember that you could expect a theoretical  2 Mbytes/s from the parallel port.

i myself have a port jr. attached to the clock-port on my 1200 and that can go up to 230kb /sec (or so)