Connect to service via parallel port

RuneK has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Gurus, I'm trying to develop a program that can connect to a firewall service on Linux box via the parallel port. I guess I will have to do some sockets programming, but I'm at a loss on how to connect via the parallel port. I know how to communicate with the service and on which port now I "just" need the rest. Does anyone have any experiences in this area and maybe some exampels? Thanks. RuneK

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Re: Connect to service via parallel port by shotgunefx (Parson) on Feb 27, 2002 at 10:26 UTC
You would probably be better off using a Serial port if you can. There's a module Device::Serialport for dealing with serial ports on Nix. I haven't seen anything (yet) written in Perl that deals with Parallel ports. I haven't programmed a centronics port since I wrote a mod player for the Disney Sound Source. (Way back..). Could make a program to log in through the serial and use Net::Telnet or something similar to do what you need. You might find this C Parallel port code helpful -Lee "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."	[reply]
Re: Re: Connect to service via parallel port by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Mar 01, 2002 at 22:11 UTC
The code in plip.c might be a good start for an XS module - I haven't any time or anything to test it against at the moment I'm afraid /J\	[reply]
Re: Connect to service via parallel port by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Feb 27, 2002 at 11:22 UTC
Linux does support the Parallel Line Interface Protocol (PLIP), but this is more of Linux question than a Perl one. There is a probably a Linux PLIP HOWTO knocking around somewhere that you can read /J\	[reply]