On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Gevaerts Frank wrote about, Re: "This is very simple" - Direct
serial connection.:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > re: direct ppp serial link
> >
> > > try :
> > > route add 192.168.0.2 ppp0
> > > on the first machine
> > > and:
> > > route add 192.168.0.1 ppp0
> > > on the other one.
> > > Depending on what exactly you want to do, you might want to make those
> > > network or default routes , instead of direct host routes.
> > >
> > > Frank
> > >
> >
> >
> > Thanks Frank, I tried that and got :
> >
> > [root@portal:/root]$ route add 192.168.0.2 ppp0
> > SIOCADDRT: No such device
> >
> > Does that help?
> >
> > I tried this with pppd running on both machines, as well as before
> > starting pppd. Does this mean I've missed something really early on?
>
> I don't know what this means. I get that message every time I connect to
> my ISP, so it might be harmless. Have you tried if you can ping the other
> side after that ?
It means no route could be added because he does not have a device called
ppp0
pings wont work either, no route no device and no ppp.
> Frank
>
> >
> > Dan.
> >
> >
>
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