pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > PPP over a serial crossover cable between two machines.
Fun retro! :-) What clues are found in the mgetty debug log file? > If mgetty is started interactively by root, PPP works, including PAP. > I haven't found any effect when the mgetty command is in /etc/inittab. The default commented out entry in Debian for years and years has been: #T3:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 57600 ttyS3 Since you have a serial line without a modem I assume you are trying something like this in your inittab? T0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -r -x0 -s 57600 ttyS0 Try cranking up the debug level. Then look T0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -r -x5 -s 57600 ttyS0 > mgetty provides the ringback protocol. For years that allowed dialin > to a modem on ttyS0. The crossover cable with PPP was on ttyS1. Do you have it connected to a modem? If not then do you have -r to avoid the modem initialization? Bob
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