On Tue, 2 May 2000, Dan Brosemer wrote:
> I'm trying to install potato over a PPP connection between a laptop with no > network card (hermod) and a desktop with ethernet (bolverk). > > I can communicate over the null modem between machines with minicom no > problem. > > hermod:~# pppd -detach /dev/ttyS0 57600 192.168.5.2:192.168.5.1 crtscts > debug noauth > bolverk:~# pppd -detach /dev/ttyS1 57600 192.168.5.1:192.168.5.2 crtscts > debug noauth You can setup a user on the "server" so that when the user logs in, pppd would be started; in /etc/passwd: pppuser:.......:/usr/local/bin/ppplogin in which ppplogin basically a script that starts pppd: /usr/sbin/pppd file /etc/ppp/options On the client machine, set a ppp connection up with a self-written chat script; the script handles the login: and password: prompts. If you have a network card on your laptop, it would be nice; you can setup IP alias feature on the kernel so that you can monitor both machines with ease (you don't have to go back and forth between them). Just use a network number for the ethernet and another for the ppp link. Oki
