Hi,
I'm trying to connect two Linux boxes together over a serial connection
using ppp, the how-to does say "this is very simple"! Alas 2 days later I
still can't do it.
One computer is running Linux Mandrake 6.1, the other Red Hat 6.0
I made a null modem cable and plugged it into ttyS0 on both computers
I edited /etc/inittab to start getty on computer 1
I started up minicom on computer 2
Bingo, I can log in, the solder job as a good one, the ports are working ...
So, I remove getty from computer 1, (and do init q), and quit minicom,
Then, according to all the documentation all I have to do is type
pppd -detach crtscts lock /dev/ttyS0 9600
on the client and the server and I should get a ppp link.
Now, being a newbie and never having seen it working I'm not too sure what
to expect, but I'd have thought ifconfig would have shown a ppp interface,
all it shows is eth0 and lo. cat /proc/net/dev shows ppp0, but no packets
having gone anywhere, ie zero's all over the place.
I've also tried
pppd -detach crtscts lock 192.168.0.1:192.168.0.2 /dev/ttyS0 9600 on the server
and
pppd -detach crtscts lock 192.168.0.2:192.168.0.1 /dev/ttyS0 9600 on the client
and can't ping 192.168.0.x from either machine.
I must be missing something pretty basic here ???
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