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Re: major/minor number for /dev/ppp0 ?



On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:26:10PM +0200, Mark Benschop wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| I'm trying to get pppd working on a debian potato/2.4.9 system.
| Now I don't seem to have /dev/ppp0 and his brothers ppp1,2 and so on.
| Can somebody tell me the major minor number of /dev/ppp0.
| So I can mknod them ?

I don't think there is such a device.  The ppp0 interface is created
when pppd gets a live PPP connection on a serial device which is
initiated by chat.  That device would be /dev/ttyS[012] if you don't
use devfs and /dev/tts/[012] if you do.

HTH,
-D



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