From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 22:21:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D461E37B42C for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 22:21:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-140-138.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.140.138]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA02055 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 15:20:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <000901c0d77e$c62c0a40$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: nullmodem ppp Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 15:21:41 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm attempting to connect two systems via serial nullmodem cable. From what I can make of man ppp, its simply a matter of configuring one machine as dialin server & other for regular ppp dialout, then run "ppp -dedicated Obviously there is more to it than this because neither "netstat -nr" nor "ifconfig -a" gives any indication that a connection has been established. The handbook description doesn't cover what I'm trying to achieve ... the client machine is not simply a terminal. It needs to run services like sendmail as if it was connected via regular dialup modem. Can anyone speak some words of wisdom on this issue ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message