Re: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread John Hasler
Brian Servis writes: > Just curious. Why are you using an infinite loop and not the persist > pppd option? I have never used ppp over serial so I may be missing > something, but it just struck me as odd. It is. I used to use pppd as a poor man's LAN. Persist works fine. Try (all on one line, o

Re: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 May, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about "Re: Network and serial port" > > #!/bin/bash > while true > do > /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 nodetach noauth proxyarp passive > asyncmap 0 > 192.168.1.2:192.168.1.3 > done > Just curious. Why are y

Re: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Hey Bob, how are things in happy valley? Anyway, I've done what you're talking about many times (for head-to-head linux Quaking!). Here's whatcha do: I'll assume your network uses the 192.168.1.0 network and your setup is this: BoxA (192.168.1.1) BoxB (192.168.1.2)BoxC (192.168.1.3

Re: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
I've got my two desktop computers networked using 10base2 and they are working nicely, now I'd like to add my laptop into the system. I don't have a network pcmcia card, but I do have a null modem cable. I think I should be able to use it to network my little laptop into the system,

Re: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread Robert Norris
> I've got my two desktop computers networked using 10base2 and they are > working nicely, now I'd like to add my laptop into the system. I don't > have a network pcmcia card, but I do have a null modem cable. I think I > should be able to use it to network my little laptop into the system, can