SUMMARY: (more) Configuring PPP on Solaris 2.x

From: John.Waterhouse@baesema.co.uk
Date: Mon Feb 12 1996 - 06:45:00 CST


Dear Sun Managers,

After I posted my last summary about PPP, I received another message, which I'm
posting to the list as other readers will probably be interested in it.

Once again, thanks for everyones help.

- For Solaris 2.[3,4] there is an excellent document written by Michael
McKnight <mcknight@rbdc.rbdc.com> called 'Outbound PPP Setup Guide for
Solaris 2.x' which describes in great detail how you *CAN* do dynamic IP
addressing despite Sun saying it can not been done. I've used that method
for several months and it worked great. The URL of the document is:
ftp://rbdc.rbdc.com/pub/solaris/sol2.x_isp_ppp17.ps.gz

- For Solaris 2.5 it is dead easy. All you need to do is to put

negotiate_address on

into your /etc/asppp.cf and Solaris will accept any decent address.

If you have maintenance and access to SunSolve, there is also a very good
InfoDoc on PPP by SunService (infodoc/11976) which together with 'Celeste's
Tutorial on Modems and Terminals' are, IMHO the holy books of PPP and comms..
URL of the Celeste's Tutorial is http://www.batnet.com:80/stokely/modem.html

If you need any additional info feel free to drop me a line.

Hope this helps.

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Nino Margetic <nino@well.ox.ac.uk>
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford.
Tel: +44 1865 740 005		Fax: +44 1865 742 196
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