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From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Setup pppd over rs-485 point-to-point
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:13:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19708.1489763613@obiwan.sandelman.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d19b2f1-bb0f-9a09-6d40-f05388c66af5@gmail.com>

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Woody Wu <narkewoody@gmail.com> wrote:
    > I want to setup pppd to connect a Linux laptop to an embedded Linux
    > device. The Linux box connected to a rs-232 to rs485 converter, then
    > the convert connected via a two-wire rs-485 cable to the embedded Linux
    > device's rs-485 port.

Depending upon what you really want to do (is it run ppp? Or is it, get IP
connectivity?), you may want to look at:

               https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6lo-6lobac/

There is some userspace code out there from Carsten I think.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-17 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-17  3:18 Setup pppd over rs-485 point-to-point Woody Wu
2017-03-17  3:57 ` Mike O'Connor
2017-03-17  4:42 ` Woody Wu
2017-03-17  5:49 ` Mike O'Connor
2017-03-17  5:50 ` Woody Wu
2017-03-17 12:05 ` James Carlson
2017-03-17 15:13 ` Michael Richardson [this message]
2017-03-19 14:40 ` Woody Wu
2017-03-19 14:43 ` Woody Wu
2017-03-20 11:07 ` James Carlson
2017-03-21  3:16 ` Woody Wu

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