[H-GEN] Connecting Win9x to Linux with PPP

[Paul Gearon]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Paul Gearon <pag at tams.com.au>)

>I'm sure this question's come up before, but does anyone know 
>offhand how to 
>convince Win95 to talk to Linux over a serial cable, using 
>PPP?
<<snip>>
>Windows doesn't like it if you tell it there's a modem there, 
>but don't give 
>it a phone number to dial or anything.

There's a couple of people who have done this for a Palm Pilot to talk to a
Linux box via PPP.  Basically the Linux box pretends it's a modem right up
until it says "CONNECT".  Then it starts pppd.

I found it wasn't too hard to do with a perl script.  It should be easier
with a Windows box since the connection protocol is much more configurable.
Josh Marshall took it much further than I did.

Regards,
Paul

Paul Gearon
gearon at computer.org

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