[ale] PPP via serial null-modem cable

[Chris Fowler]

Joe,


Are you using a correct null-modem cable?  Try a speed greater than 9600.  Maybe 115200.  That will work much better.


Chris



-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph A. Knapka [mailto:jknapka at earthlink.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 8:50 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] PPP via serial null-modem cable



Hi everyone,


Has anyone here run PPP to connect two machines via a serial
line? I'm following the instructions in the PPP-HOWTO
about this, but it's not working. Specifically, I (seem to)
get a connection, but both pppd's exit after a few seconds
with "LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests".


On machine A, I do:


pppd -detach crtscts local 10.0.0.1:10.0.0.2 /dev/ttyS0 9600


and on machine B:


pppd -detach crtscts local 10.0.0.2:10.0.0.1 /dev/ttyS0 9600


After doing the second command, I get "Connect ppp0<-->/dev/ttyS0"
on each machine, but they can't ping one another, and after
twenty seconds or so the LCP timeout message appears.


Thanks in advance,


-- Joe Knapka
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