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Subject: Re: Dialin PPP: trouble getting started
From: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net>
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Update: problem solved.

> Basically, I need to know whether I point getty to the device 
> via /dev/ttyd1 in /etc/ttys, whether I run /usr/sbin/ppp (in addition
> to  the /usr/sbin/ppp that's already running for the uplink) with a
> different  entry in ppp.conf, or whether I run /usr/sbin/pppd.  Once I
> get moving in  one of these directions, there seems to be enough
> documentation out there  to get me going.  Can anyone give me headstart
> on this?

The solution, of course, was to point getty at ttyd0 (not d1 -- I had to 
swap the modems over, since I gather ppp -direct will only talk to port 0), 
and have getty spawn a ppp -direct on answer.  Works well.

Thanks to those who replied by email.


-- 
Paul.

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