Re: Network and serial port
Brian Servis writes:
> Just curious. Why are you using an infinite loop and not the persist
> pppd option? I have never used ppp over serial so I may be missing
> something, but it just struck me as odd.
It is. I used to use pppd as a poor man's LAN. Persist works fine.
Try (all on one line, of course):
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 local crtscts persist bsdcomp 15,15
noauth proxyarp passive asyncmap 0 192.168.1.2:192.168.1.3
The proxyarp is useless without an ethernet, of course.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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