Subject: Re Re: Serial Terminal
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Bert Koster <aweka@xs4all.nl>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/26/1997 01:00:26
Nikolai Vladychevski

>>>I have a IIvx which I run NetBSD from and a Quadra 605 that I run MacOS 
>>>from, neither have Ether cards or anything.  How can I connect to the 
>>>NetBSD machine to the MacOS machine via serial cable and how could I 
>>>telnet from one to the other?
>>>
>>Does that make any sense?
>>Just plug your Mac serial cable to both machines and on netbsd do this:
>>pppd /dev/tty00 (or tty01 if you use printer port) 57600 lock crtscts 
>>local 192.168.1.1:192.168.1.2
>>where 192.168.1.1 is netbsds IP, and 192.168.1.2 is the Quadras IP.

Very nice, but by trying this I came to the conclusion that I seem to =
miss the "/etc/ppp/peers" dirictory
Because after trying the above and several other options, I stil get =
the message from 'pppd':
peer authentication required but no suitable secret(s) found.

What does this tell me?????

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