ESP8266 Community Forum

- Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:06 am #5075 I have a gms module on UART2 which plays nicely with ppp ....would be very cool if we could use esp8266 + ppp .....guess not enough of a demand yet, hopefully in time there is some firmware which enables such a setup.

Thanks for all the ideas and input!

Bruce

- Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:55 am #5081

I have a gms module on UART2 which plays nicely with ppp

That's a different kettle of fish. The GSM module makes the physical connection to your provider's server, that runs some sort of a pppd, and your local ppp connects to it, providing an ip connection to the system.

It should be possible to connect to a remote pppd through the ESP8266, although not straightforward.

Running a pppd on the ESP itself may be difficult, I don't even know how many simultaneous connection it can handle.

- Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:29 pm #5097 I agree with the previous posts; this isn't a modem; the IP stack is built into it unlike the modem where YOUR stack is used over PPP. I don't believe that would be possible with ESP. Why not just get a USB $5 Wi Fi dongle and voila; you will have a Wi Fi interface under Linux