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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:38:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Gareth Gregor <gareth AT vukanet DOT co DOT za>
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Subject: Re: PPPD on cygwin?
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Gareth Gregor wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Sorry if this has been covered on this list in the past, I did search the
> archives of the cygwin list and only found one mail that did not explain
> things.
>
> What I want to know is, is there a pppd for cygwin? I use pppd very often to
> connect 2 linux boxes together with a analogue modem on each end, for this i
> just use init and pppd, i can get away with not using init, but i will need
> pppd.
> There is _no_ way that I have seen to do this with win95/98, on NT there is
> a way but its really hard to get working.
> And most of my clients cant afford another computer just for the linux+pppd.
> I basically would like to have pppd on windows as it is in linux, but if the
> ttySx devices are named different and such its not a problem, i just need a
> ppp/pppd.
>
> Anyway, thank you all for any help you can provide.
> Regards
> Gareth Gregor

Gareth,

To find out whether a particular package is available for Cygwin, use the
package search page at <http://cygwin.com/packages/>, or the list of
ported packages at <http://cygwin.com/ported.html>.  This will show that
there is no pppd package for Cygwin (yet).

However, there is an experimental sysvinit package for Cygwin that is just
about ready to go mainstream, according to the discussion on the
cygwin-apps list.  Also, Cygwin strives to provide a Unix interface, which
includes device naming, so you should be able to use ttySx with no
problems.  You might try to install sysvinit and compile an open source
pppd (e.g.  <ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mppe/pptpd-1.1.3.tar.gz>), and
let the list know whether it works.
	Igor
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