PLIPCONFIG(8)

🦋 PLIPCONFIG(8) 🦋

Okay bestie, this is the Linux System Administrator's Manual page for plipconfig 💅

✨ NAME ✨

plipconfig is your tool for fine tuning PLIP device parameters 🎀

📡 SYNOPSIS 📡

plipconfig interface [nibble NN] [trigger NN]
plipconfig [-V] [--version] [-h] [--help]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so plipconfig is used to (hopefully!) make PLIP faster by tweaking the default timing parameters the PLIP protocol uses 🚀 how well it works totally depends on your parallel port hardware, your cable, and the CPU speed of each machine on each end of the PLIP link 🫶

if you give it a single interface argument, it just shows you the status of that interface, nothing more 👀 otherwise it goes ahead and tries to set the options 🔥

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• nibble NN — sets the nibble wait value in microseconds ⏱️ the default is 3000 ✨
• trigger NN — sets the trigger wait value in microseconds ⏱️ the default is 500 🦋

ok real talk, PLIP speed can sometimes get a glow up by lowering those default values 💅 but be careful, because values that are too low can cause:

• excess use of CPU 💀
• poor interrupt response time, which makes the serial ports start dropping characters 😭
• dropping of PLIP packets 🙈

and changing the PLIP MTU can also affect PLIP speed 🧚

⚠️ go easy on the lowering, bestie! too low and things get messy fast 😭

🎀 NOTE 🎀

if you get no response at all, it's way more likely the irq is wrong and needs setting with ifconfig 🔧 the only cases where the default parameters are too fast are the ones using very long cables 🐍 and honestly? you should never do that, because the parallel port is not specified or designed for driving long cable runs 💀

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

ifconfig(8) is the one to check out next 💜

🙈 BUGS 🙈

Non. 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

John Paul Morrison, <jmorriso@bogomips.ee.ubc.ca>, <ve7jpm@ve7jpm.ampr.org> 🫶

and that's the tea ☕✨ net-tools, dated 2008-10-03, PLIPCONFIG(8) signing off, stay hydrated and keep your timing values chill bestie 🌈💖