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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPPD problem with direct serial connection Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 23:10:06 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 12 Message-ID: <32492F2E.30E3@OntheNet.com.au> References: <87d8zb1chz.fsf@enterprise.ufp.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Richard Levenberg <richardl@enterprise.ufp.com> Richard Levenberg wrote: > > Hello gurus. I have been working on this problem for a month and I really > need some help. I have two FreeBSD boxes sitting right next to each other > connected by a null-modem cable on sio1 on both boxes. I have pppd 2.2.0 on > one machine and pppd 2.1.2 on the other. I dont think that makes much of > a difference. I presume that no getty's are running on any of these ports, so to test the cable out, fire up a getty on one system and use 'cu' on the other to try and login. If that doesn't work, your cable is busted! Tony