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.

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: > The pppd man page mentions the 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.tty

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

Robert D. Hilliard writes: > The pppd man page mentions the 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 > dis

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

(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 option as requiring pppd to make a ppp con

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 compressio

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 PR

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 upp

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 ppp