At 3:25 PM 99.01.15, Dan Dockery wrote:
> One thing I've been wondering as I've read through this thread is
> whether anyone has tried running pppd on the serial line and using
> something like MacPPP or OT PPP to connect to it from the Macintosh.  I
> haven't worked too much with any of the Mac PPP dialers, so I don't
> know how well it would work.  If they insist on modem responses, maybe
> it would even be possible to hack pppd to send back the appropriate
> "OK" and "CONNECT XXXXX" type responses?  Also, do these dialers
> support Appletalk over PPP?  If so, perhaps that could be a possible
> "hack."

As in my experiments before, I was able to connect my ClassicII (System7.1)
to pppd on IIci, using MacTCP&ConfigPPP on a serial line.
The connection is quite stable, you can do telnet, ftp, www, almost everything
except for using AppleTalk (^^;
The problem is, MacTCP doesn't support Appletalk at all :-)

 I also tried FreePPP, but it insisted on being connected to a modem.

Takashi Ikemi
ikemi@xa2.so-net.ne.jp