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Bill Unruh | 9 Apr 18:10
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Re: PPP server installation

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, James Carlson wrote:

> Bill Unruh writes:
> > The key word is
> > mgetty
> > This will answer the phone and start pppd when you have set it up.
>
> Agreed, that's the right way to do it.  It might be faster, though, to
> just set up a copy of pppd running on that port using /etc/inittab.
> Something like:
>
> S0:234:respawn:/usr/bin/pppd 10.0.0.1:10.0.0.2

No if, as I recall he said, he is dialing in to the machine. He needs
something to answer the phone, and pppd is not good at that.
Also, He had better put in the passive option as well, or pppd will
continually send out LCP requests, not get answered for 10 times, die,
be reborn, etc.

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Clifford Kite | 9 Apr 21:55
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Re: PPP server installation

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, James Carlson wrote:

|> Bill Unruh writes:
|>
|> The key word is mgetty.  This will answer the phone and start pppd
|> when you have set it up.
|
|Agreed, that's the right way to do it.  It might be faster, though, to
|just set up a copy of pppd running on that port using /etc/inittab.
|Something like:
|
|S0:234:respawn:/usr/bin/pppd 10.0.0.1:10.0.0.2

Did I miss something here?  How is pppd to know which serial port it
needs?  The S0 certainly doesn't tell it anything (and  neither will
"connect /bin/true").

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James Carlson | 9 Apr 22:15

Re: PPP server installation

Clifford Kite writes:
> Did I miss something here?  How is pppd to know which serial port it
> needs?  The S0 certainly doesn't tell it anything (and  neither will
> "connect /bin/true").

Uh ... yeah.  I left out "ttyS0" on the command line.  Thanks; I had
getty on the brain.

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James Carlson | 9 Apr 19:01

Re: PPP server installation

Bill Unruh writes:
> No if, as I recall he said, he is dialing in to the machine. He needs
> something to answer the phone, and pppd is not good at that.
> Also, He had better put in the passive option as well, or pppd will
> continually send out LCP requests, not get answered for 10 times, die,
> be reborn, etc.

... which is mostly harmless.  ;-}

Actually, if he uses "connect /bin/true" as one of the options, then
pppd will wait for DCD to go high before doing anything.  With the
right settings on the modem (automatically answer when DTR is high),
that should be enough ...

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Bill Unruh | 9 Apr 19:08
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Re: PPP server installation

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, James Carlson wrote:

> Bill Unruh writes:
> > No if, as I recall he said, he is dialing in to the machine. He needs
> > something to answer the phone, and pppd is not good at that.
> > Also, He had better put in the passive option as well, or pppd will
> > continually send out LCP requests, not get answered for 10 times, die,
> > be reborn, etc.
>
> ... which is mostly harmless.  ;-}

Well, it depends. If a program dies and is resurrected too often in a 5
min time period, init kills the program for 10 min and then tries again.
This would mean that most of the time pppd would not be connected as
init did not restart it. (It may be that the LCP non-negotiation takes long
enough that this would not happen.)
>
> Actually, if he uses "connect /bin/true" as one of the options, then
> pppd will wait for DCD to go high before doing anything.  With the
> right settings on the modem (automatically answer when DTR is high),
> that should be enough ...
>
>

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