Hi, I am trying to set up a network connection between two computers which are connected with a serial cable (null modem). One computer is an i386 with 2.4.0, the other is an Macintosh Quadra 610 with 2.2.10, both running stable. I found an old conversion cable so I can connect apples with rs232 ports. It works, I have a connection (I can cat a file at one machine, and it comes out unscrambled on the other).
I do: pppd -detach crtscts lock 192.168.2.254:192.168.2.1 /dev/ttyS1 19200 noauth on both computers (and the ip's swapped), as described in the ppp howto. Both return: Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 and wait, and after a while they get a LCP timeout sending Config-Requests. In the manpage of pppd there is said that crtscts does not work correctly on macintoshes, but they do not say what will work. I tried other options like xon/xoff, cdtr/cts, modem, but without succes. I also tried to set up the ppp0 interface with ifconfig while both computers are waiting for connection, but also without succes. Am I forgetting something? Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan
