From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 2 11:31:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18661 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:31:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18587 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:30:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA09236; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:30:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:30:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Norbert.Schauermann@lrz.tu-muenchen.de cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: iijppp over loopback In-Reply-To: <9804020913.AA18158@sun1.lrz-muenchen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Apr 1998 Norbert.Schauermann@lrz.tu-muenchen.de wrote: > can someone tell me if it is possible to test a PPP-link over the local > loopback? I want to test my changes for the user-space-PPP in a > standalone-system. The only way I thought of could be the loopback > device. Is this possible? If yes, what changes do I have to make in the > configuration files? The loopback device is a network interface, not a real device. How about a pipe? mkfifo /tmp/something, and point both ppp's at it. A hunch, NOT TESTED ... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message