Short: PLIP 37.14 (SANA2 for parallel port)
Type: comm/net
Uploader: balzer@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Michael Balzer)

PLIP is a network device driver conforming to the SANA2 standard.  It
allows linking of two Amigas using their parallel ports.  Transfer speed
with Envoy is around 55 kbyte/sec.  The complete low level transfer protocol
is integrated in the device driver, including port arbitration handshaking
and interrupt driven reads.  Although the transfer process itself is cpu
intensive, the device needs no cpu resources when no transfer is in
progress.

PLIP is intended as a low-cost networking solution, since the capabilities
of the parallel hardware are somewhat limited.  However, it gives much
better results than SLIP and leaves the serial port free.