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Hi,

On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 08:25:48PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> >From the pppd man page:
> 
> OPTIONS FILES
>        Options can be taken from files as  well  as  the  command
>        line.  Pppd reads options from the files /etc/ppp/options,
>        ~/.ppprc  and  /etc/ppp/options.ttyname  (in  that  order)
>        before  processing  the  options on the command line.  (In

note the next two lines:

>        fact, the command-line options are  scanned  to  find  the
>        terminal  name  before  the options.ttyname file is read.)

!!

>        In forming the name of the options.ttyname file, the  ini­
>        tial  /dev/  is  removed  from  the terminal name, and any
>        remaining / characters are replaced with dots.
> 
> so create an options file for each port (options.ttyS0, options.ttyS1,
> etc) and put a different IP address setting in each.

Will that also work if pppd is called for "stdin", that is, without explicit
device name?

gert
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