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kraftycuts

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Registered: 2006-01-07

Posts: 1

pppd null modem problem

Hi

I want to create a serial connection between 2 machines using pppd but I can't get it to work.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong because I don't see a ppp0 device when I run ifconfig.

my /etc/ppp/options file contains:

#/etc/ppp/options
lock
debug
noauth
-detach
netmask 255.255.255.0
proxyarp

then i start pppd by running (as root):

pppd /dev/ttyS0 192.168.10.1:192.168.10.2 &

Everything seems fine at this point, there is a message in my /var/log/messages.log:

Jan  7 14:20:25 blueplanet pppd[2564]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0

and I can see the pppd process is running when I run the ps command.

However, there is no ppp0 device (or any other new device) when I run ifconfig.

At the other end, the PC (opendarwin) runs pppd OK and creates a new network device, but when I try to ping my Arch linux pc it just says "network down". I'm using slightly different options at this end, eg replacing "proxyarp" with "defaultroute"

Can some one sort me out please?!