pppd without dialup

From: Allan Adler (ara_at_nestle.csail.mit.edu)
Date: 08/30/04

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    Everything I've read about pppd assumes that one is going to use pppd
    to tell the modem to dial up the ISP. Am I correct in thinking that
    pppd is also good for having two PC's connected by a cable (one of those
    cables whose connector looks like a phone jack, only bigger), where no
    modem dialup is involved. If so, where is this explained in words of
    one syllable? I can get the two PC's to ping each other but that's all.
    I've been told that I need for one of them to be configured as a server,
    which seems to imply some software I haven't been able to figure out how
    to install, but I'm skeptical about that. If the two PC's can ping each
    other, I don't see why they can't also exchange files.

    In the past, I used to telnet and ftp from my MIT account to my laptop
    sometimes while connected to the internet, just with my usual dialup.
    That was enabled by setting the security level appropriately (or, rather,
    inappropriately. I don't do that any more), not by installing any special
    software, as far as I know. When I used the same installation CD's on another
    machine and explicitly tried to tell the installer to configure it as a server,
    it just hung, apparently because it was looking on the installation diskettes
    for the necessary software, which wasn't there. So the laptop couldn't have
    been configured as a server either. 

    -- 
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@zurich.csail.mit.edu>
* Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and
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