You won't be "dialing"; the link will be up continuously. By telling
the port it's hardwired, as soon as it sees carrier it starts setting
up PPP with the other end.
I have such a link (using Adtran 5600s) between one of my PMs and a
cisco at a local bank. The PM config:
hfpm1> sh s28
----------------------- Current Status - Port S28 ---------------------------
Status: ESTABLISHED
Input: 2300056030 Parity Errors: 0
Output: 3041607055 Framing Errors: 43777
Pending: 0 Overrun Errors: 17
Modem Status: DCD+ CTS+
Active Configuration Default Configuration
-------------------- ---------------------
Port Type: Netwrk Netwrk (Hardwired)
Baud Rates: 57600 57600,57600,57600
Flow Control: RTS/CTS RTS/CTS
Modem Control: on on
Remote Host: evgn-hf-56k.heaven.net evgn-hf-56k.heaven.net
Local Address: hfpm1.heaven.net hfpm1.heaven.net
Netmask: 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255
Interface: ptp28 (PPP,Quiet) (PPP,Quiet)
Mtu: 1500 1500
Async Map: L:00000000 R:000a0000 00000000
Dial Group: 0
Forget the dial group part - that's from some experiment long ago -
there is no location associated with this link.
If that number of framing errors looks big, consider this:
hfpm1> ver
Livingston PortMaster PM-2e ComOS 3.5
System uptime is 398 days 10 hours 33 minutes
If you access www.evergreenbank.com, you'll traverse this link.
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