From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 02:13:44 -0400
From: Craig Brent Ludington craigl@tezcat.com
Subject: PPP over serial line
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Could someone who has set up PPP over a serial line please help.

I've used the following approach:

	1. telco /dev/eia1 
	2. con -l telco!5551212
	3. logged on to ppp server and started ppp
	4. used the <ctrl-\> ! combination to execute pppclient as:
	5. pppclient -i myipaddr -p ISP'sipaddr

At this point all the con's i/o seem to be going to pppclient.

I then try to:
	6. echo "add myipaddr" > /bin/ndb/cs
to put the new ip address in the network database.  (I'm logged on as sys).

Any effort to ping results in a "not found" message.  ndb/query won't 
execute, saying only "bad exec header"  (I may not remember that precisely).

I've read the man pages, and searched the archives for this newsgroup,
without success so far.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Craig Ludington
(who's delighted to be running Plan9!)