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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: pppd won't work - ioctl(TIOCSETD): Inappropriate ioctl for device
Date: 19 Jul 1994 18:29:42 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: stark!gene@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu's message of 18 Jul 94 20:37:36


In article <STARK!GENE.94Jul18203736@stark.uucp>
stark!gene@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) writes:

   You cannot run pppd over a pty, since pty's do not support changing
   the line discipline.

Actually, I've done just that under NetBSD, and it works fine.  Some
people find it useful in odd administrative situations (i.e. they
don't run the terminal server they use to dial into their machine at
work).


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