From owner-freebsd-net Fri Feb 16 21:43:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from syncopation-03.iinet.net.au (syncopation-03.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9BCE37B4EC for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:43:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25827 invoked by uid 666); 17 Feb 2001 05:56:23 -0000 Received: from i079-180.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.79.180) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 17 Feb 2001 05:56:23 -0000 Message-ID: <3A8E0F6B.B364EB77@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:43:07 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Conrad Sabatier Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using pppd to gateway another box via null modem serial line References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > Can anyone offer some tips on how to go about setting up pppd to act as: > > 1) An address server, i.e. assigning an IP address to another machine connected > via null modem to a serial port (ttyd0) pppd is fine, but ppp (a differnt program) has more features to allow what you want. > > 2) Providing a gateway for the null-modem connected box to enable it to connect > to external (Internet) hosts > > I'm thinking the best way would be to edit the ttyd0 line in /etc/ttys, but I'm > not sure what would be the best options to use. Authentication is not needed, > as the only machine that will ever be connected to the serial port is local. > I'm also not sure if any special routing setup is needed. And I'd like the > connection to stay up as long as both machines are up. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > -- > Conrad Sabatier > cjsabatier@home.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message