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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!news.cygnus.com!kithrup.com!headwall.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: pppd won't work - ioctl(TIOCSETD): Inappropriate ioctl for device Date: 19 Jul 1994 18:29:42 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 18 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Jul19142942@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <Ct32o5.Brz@ns1.nodak.edu> <STARK!GENE.94Jul18203736@stark.uucp> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: stark!gene@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu's message of 18 Jul 94 20:37:36 In article <STARK!GENE.94Jul18203736@stark.uucp> stark!gene@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) writes: You cannot run pppd over a pty, since pty's do not support changing the line discipline. Actually, I've done just that under NetBSD, and it works fine. Some people find it useful in odd administrative situations (i.e. they don't run the terminal server they use to dial into their machine at work). -- - Charles Hannum NetBSD group Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532. In progress: pmax, sun3.