Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:23:55 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971220121454.23025A-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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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
----
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Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I'm living on" -DB
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