From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 20 09:24:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA29245 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 09:24:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA29223 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 09:23:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA23735 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:23:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:23:55 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I just got one of those little WinCE palmtops, and I want to get net access with it by plugging it into the serial port of both my home and work FBSD machines. The problems I'm having are: 1. It's not really happy with a direct connection; it prefers a modem, so the login is rather clunky. I'd like to have a serial port ready for a PAP login with no initial user login. The CE machine would be pretty happy with that. What's the best way to spawn PPP on the serial port of the FBSD boxes? 2. When I was playing around with it, I could successfully login by spawning a getty on a serial port. I logged in as user "ppp" and quickly killed the post-dial term screen on the CE box (it hangs if you start seeing the PPP stuff). I had a simple ppp.conf that assigned an address on the same subnet as the FBSD box and handed out NS info. I also included "enable proxy". An ifconfig showed that it was proxy ARP-ing, but I could only ping hte CE machine from the PPP server. arp -a on other machines on the same wire did not show an entry for the CE machine. What might I have missed? I looked at the PPP pages, but the example tend more towards dial-out. I'm new to user-ppp, so be gentle :) Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- "I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on" -DB