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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/* Recipe for a unified PPP debug log file:  Add the line
   " local2.*;*.=debug;*.=notice	/var/log/ppp-debug.log "
   (may need Tab separators) to the /etc/syslog.conf file, and then do
   " kill -HUP `pidof syslogd` " to make syslogd reread it. */
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