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AXIS 200 User’s Manual Section 5: Using the AXIS 200
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3. To open the connection, enter:
The latter variation on this command causes the AXIS 200 to
temporarily have the Internet address 172.16.3.219. If an address
is not specified, as displayed in first form of this command, the unit
will then use its default address that was previously assigned using
the
arp
command.
Note:
❏ Please note that you will probably have to be
root
user to
establish the connection. The modem will try to connect and the
PPP process will then fork off into the background. A shell
prompt will be returned immediately. You may suppress this
behavior by giving the switch
-detach
.
4. After approximately 20 seconds, the connection should be ready for
service. You should then try pinging the AXIS 200, and make sure
that it is online. The ping response times should be similar to those
below:
5. Type the following to terminate the connection:
pppd connect '/usr/sbin/chat -f DIAL_AXIS200'
115200 /dev/modem
or,
pppd connect '/usr/sbin/chat -f DIAL_AXIS200'
:172.16.3.219 115200 /dev/modem
64 bytes from 172.16.3.219: icmp_seq=0 ttl=15
time=197.0 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.3.219: icmp_seq=1 ttl=15
time=180.0 ms
kill -TERM ‘cat /var/run/ppp0.pid‘