Executive summary: it's working, but not exactly as I would like to.

Typing "pppd tty00 9600 silent local lock :spock" at the root prompt on
the server (heimdall) and typing "pppd tty00 9600 :heimdall" at the root 
prompt on the client (spock) *does* open a ppp connection (yay!). 
Everything works just fine: ping, ftp etc.

Firing up ppp in /etc/ttys, however, *doesn't work*. I'm getting a weird
message:

Jun 17 22:23:25 heimdall init: getty repeating too quickly on port
/dev/tty00

which is repeated in bursts every few minutes. Can someone explain what's
going on? TIA.

/Johan

P.S. The relevant part of my /etc/ttys looks like:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#       $NetBSD: ttys,v 1.11 1995/10/09 02:19:39 thorpej Exp $
#       from: @(#)ttys  5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89
#
# name  getty                           type    status          comments
#
# If the console is marked insecure, single-user requires
# the root password.
console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   off secure

# Define the console that we actually run getty on.
ttye0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   off secure

# Hardwired lines are marked off, by default, so getty(8)
# is quiet when they don't exist.
tty00   "/usr/sbin/pppd tty00 9600 silent local lock :spock" unknown on
secure
tty01   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on  secure