Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: The pppd man page mentions the tty_name option as requiring pppd to make a ppp connection using the specified device, but does not mention that pppd will then read the file /etc/ppp. README.linux and the comments in the file

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

Daniel Martin writes: Really? My pppd man page covers this [/etc/ppp/options.ttySX]... Mine doesn't. My ppp is from bo, version 2.2.0f-23 My pppd is pppd version 2.2 patch level 0, on a 1.3.1 system recently upgraded with a Cheap Bytes CD. On the pppd man page source I find 'pppd.8,v 1.1.1.2

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

Thanks very much for your responses. All responders recommended using ppp instead of slip. I will try a ppp setup tonight. I started trying to use slip because the NET-3-HOWTO recommends it in this situation. Is that advice now obsolete? John says: If this works I suggest

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

Bob, One small point. You can get compression from a modem but it is very difficult to get compression over a piece of wire. :-) I fell for the same thing myself. But do go for 115200. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL

Compression over null-modem connection (Was Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One small point. You can get compression from a modem but it is very difficult to get compression over a piece of wire. :-) I believe compression from a modem is actually software compression implemented by the modem's ROM, while BSD compression

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

(My original post, requesting assistance configuring slip over a null modem, and the responses recommending ppp instead are omitted to save bandwidth.) Thanks again to all. My link is now working perfectly. The pppd man page mentions the tty_name option as requiring pppd to make

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

Lindsay writes: One small point. You can get compression from a modem but it is very difficult to get compression over a piece of wire. :-) 'bsdcomp 15,15' works just fine over a piece of wire. Better, in fact, than over a modem since the modem should already be doing hardware compression.

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

Robert D. Hilliard writes: The pppd man page mentions the tty_name option as requiring pppd to make a ppp connection using the specified device, but does not mention that pppd will then read the file /etc/ppp. README.linux and the comments in the file /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX included with the

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

I needed the same thing recently and someone on this list kindly posted this solution. Put this on both machines in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0 and then type pppd ttyS0 on both sides. I'm assuming that you are using the first serial port (ttyS0) on both computers here. 'bobspc' will then have two