SUMMARY: Sparc20 PPP server

vicky@bu.edu
Tue, 08 Apr 1997 17:44:33 -0400

Hi everybody,

Sorry for the late summary.

Thanks to:

ead@ixian.com
Rob Pieters <ropieter@ba3sun01.eitc.eds.com>
Larry Williamson <larry@mitra.com>
Ryan Permeh <talis@millcomm.com>
"Lajos Moczar" <lmocz@galatea.com>
Louis Hoo <lhoo@newmedia.kri.com>
celeste@celestial.stokely.com (Celeste Stokely)
Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>

Original message:

> I would like to set up a Sparc20 running Solaris 2.x as a PPP server.
> The SPARC is currently attached to a large ethernet network, and I want
> to be able to connect to it from a Mac at home and use applications
> that require TCP/IP.

> What I can fo so far is dialup from home to a terminal server from where
> I can telnet to the SPARC. I have searched the internet but most of the
> info I found refers to setting up a SPARC to be connected to the internet
>through PPP.

> Can I please get some pointers from people that have done this before?

Suggestions:

Stokely Consulting's Unix Serial Port Resources page at:

http://www.stokely.com/unix.serial.port.resources/ppp.slip.html

Usenet newsgroup:

comp.protocols.ppp

PPP Software:

ftp://merit.edu/pub/unix/ppp/ppp-2.2.tar.gz

dp-4.0 (phoenix.acn.purdue.edu).

Solaris ppp software (SUNWapppr, SUNWapppu and SUNWpppk)
- Several people suggested to avoid that...

PPP on terminal server (configure a port to use ppp as default protocol):

If host is rebooted, connections are not lost; of course while
the reboot is taking place, no new authentications are taking place

Regards.