Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:56:00 +0000 () From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: Richard Levenberg <richardl@enterprise.ufp.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPD problems with direct serial connection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960924175211.293C-100000@hmmm.alaska.net> In-Reply-To: <199609241308.IAA26137@horton.iaces.com>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Richard Levenberg said: > > > > No matter what I try I cant get past this timeout for LCP requests. Can > > anybody please help me or at least suggest something to try next. I do > > not want to use user ppp at this time, however. Thank you in advance. > > Please if you need any other information to help me just ask. I dont > > know what is important in this situation so I am just shooting in the > > dark. > > I use iijppp so I can't help on those, but are you sure your null modem > cable works correctly? Have you tried tipping from one to the other? > Start up a getty on one and tip to the other to confirm connectivity. > > Does the cable have everything for hardware handshaking? oooh! this reminds me - JW once posted a note about Null modem cables ... from what i can remember, Unix cables require something special (normal), i can't remember exactly, something about a special jumper that's required to modify standard cables, but you'll find the answer in the newsgroup archives - comp.os.unix.freebsd.misc (i think)
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