From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 23 07:28:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA13748 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 07:28:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA13713 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 07:28:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA10769; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 15:04:14 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199712231504.PAA10769@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: spork cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP question In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:23:55 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 15:04:14 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What does ``netstat -rn'' say on both boxes both before and after the connection has been established ? Also, take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/userppp.html for some of the usual `gotcha's. > 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 > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....