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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2001 00:00:37 +1000
From:      "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Fw: nullmodem ppp (2)
Message-ID:  <012501c0d7c7$4568e560$0300a8c0@oracle>

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After having trouble with nullmodem config as per man ppp, I found a
slightly
different set of config info in  ppp.conf.sample & changed my systems
to that.
The results are identical to when I used the man ppp setup (eg
netstat -nr
on both client & server machines shows a new tun interface but the IPs
I
specified in the ppp.conf files are not included)

There doesn't appear to be any weirdness in ppp.log .... its as if the
connection
is established but someone forgot to tell PPP it was supposed to do
some IP
routing. I looked at the manual connection example, but apparently
that relates
strictly to modems ("term" doesn't seem to have any relevance to a
nullmodem
setup)
.
As I've said previously, I can't see any value in the handbook "serial
terminal"
system .... this machine is to be co-hosted & run various services
rather than
be a glorified workstation.

I'm starting ppp with ppp direct-server & ppp direct-client. In both
cases I get
the following

Working in interactive mode
Using interface : tunN
ppp ON <hostname> >

Adding the routes manually with ifconfig doesn't help .... starting to
wonder if
the (new) nullmodem cable is OK. I've checked the ports with cu & with
modems and no problems there. What else could be causing problems ??



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