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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
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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