I just thought I would pass along the great information I received from the
folks around the net...
Cheerz,
-Dave
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> I would be willing to pay $75/hour for a couple of hours help getting the
> /etc/asppp.cf, /etc/uucp/Systems, and other necessary files set up correctly.
>
> I'll be a single node (named nomad2) calling into one server (named annex),
> which also provides a name server. I can tell you exactly how the system is
> set
> up on the IPX with the older version of PPP.
asppp.cf:
ifconfig ipdptp0 plumb nomad2 annex up
path
inactivity_timeout 120 # Approx. 2 minutes
interface ipdptp0
peer_system_name PPPlogin # The name we log in with (also in
# /etc/uucp/Systems
/etc/uucp/Systems:
Ptest Any ACU 38400 Phone# "" P_ZERO login:--login: PPPlogin word:--word: Passwd
/etc/uucp/Devices:
ACU cua/a - Any hayes
/etc/hosts:
192.200.1.1 annex # whatever the real addresses are
192.200.1.2 nomad2
That's pretty much it. Be sure to have the PPP patch installed
> Is there a kind and knowedgable soul out there who can send me a sample
> configuration file or point me to a good reference? (I'm not a complete
> dummy.)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ___Stephen Travis Pope
> ___Editor, Computer Music Journal, MIT Press (and)
> ___Res. Assoc., CNMAT, Dept. of Music, U.C.Berkeley
> ___stp@CNMAT.Berkeley.edu, (510) 644-3881
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>I've been working on setting up my new (used) SPARC 2 at home and was looking
>for ANY info on how to configure/setup PPP. I know this is probably a
>psuedo-FAQ but I've been looking around and can't seem to find any info.
>ANY info would be greatly appreicated....
>
>Cheerz,
>
> -Dave "No, I don't have the manual" Schmitz
If you want to set it up to dialout, here's a quick step-by-step
1) In /etc/asppp.cf:
First enter interface config line, like
ifconfig ipdptp0 plumb <yourip> [<dest ip if static>] up
Then enter the path information, like
path
inactivity_timeout 0 # in seconds (0=never)
interface ipdptp0
peer_system_name PPP # this is the name of entry in Systems
ipcp_async_map 0 # optional
default_route # if appropriate
2) In /etc/uucp/Systems:
Format is as follows:
<peer sys name> <time can connect> <device type> <speed> <phone #> <script...>
Example:
PPP Any ACU 38400 5551234 login: jdoe Password: pencil
The login script is just alternating fields of <expect> <send>. All
sends are followed with a carriage return by default unless otherwise
specified with escape chars. This and other escape chars can be found
in the header of /etc/uucp/Dialers
3) In /etc/uucp/Devices:
This maps the device type from ./etc/uucp/Systems to the port device and
dialer entry in /etc/uucp/Dialers. Format is as follows:
<device type> <port device> <dunno-unused?> <speed> <dialer entry name>
Example:
ACU cua/b - 38400 usrv32-nec
To find which dialer entry to use, lookup and see what the closest matching
modem to yours is that you can find in the /etc/uucp/Dialers file.
Good Luck!
-Cengiz Akinli
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Dave,
This might help...
PPP Cookbook
===============
Sun Workstation Side (22 steps)
---------------------------------
(Note: these instructions assume the modem is on serial port "a")
1.) Be sure the PPP and UUCP software (part of Solaris) is
installed. Install if necessary using either pkgadd or swmtool.
# pkginfo | egrep "PPP|UUCP"
(should return: pppk, apppr, apppu, bnuu, and bnur)
2.) Make sure the EEPROM settings are correct. The ignore-cd parameter
setting must be "true" for bi-directional modem connections
(although it seems incorrect I verified it with Sun tech support).
# eeprom | grep ttya
# eeprom ttya-mode=38400,8,n,1,h
# eeprom ttya-ignore-cd=true
# eeprom ttya-rts-dtr-off=false
3.) Reboot the system to enact the EEPROM changes (if they changed).
4.) Remove the following entries to make room for the new values.
This assumes the modem will be on port "a".
# sacadm -r -p zsmon0 2> /dev/null
# sttydefs -r conttyH8hi 2> /dev/null
# pmadm -r -p zsmon -s ttya 2> /dev/null
# pmadm -r -p zsmon0 -s ttya 2> /dev/null
5.) Hook up the modem (I use a Hayes Optima 28.8K). Use a 25-wire
straight-through RS-232 cable. Don't attempt to use a cable with
only a few wires... Turn on the modem. You should see the following
LEDs lit: "TR", "MS" and "HS".
6.) Create a new port monitor. Verify it.
# sacadm -a -p zsmon0 -t ttymon -c /usr/lib/saf/ttymon \
-v `ttyadm -V` -y "Dial in/out on serial port a"
# sacadm -l
7.) Create an 8-bit clean, HW flow control, 38400 locked, modem entry.
Verify it.
# echo "conttyH8hi:38400 -parenb cs8 ignpar opost onlcr:38400 hupcl \
-clocal -parenb ignpar cs8 -istrip -ixon ixany \
crtscts::conttyH8hi" >> /etc/ttydefs
# sttydefs -l conttyH8hi
8.) Create a port listener. Verify it.
# pmadm -a -p zsmon0 -s ttya -i root -f u -v `ttyadm -V` \
-m "`ttyadm -b -S n -d /dev/term/a -l conttyH8hi -s /usr/bin/login \
-m ldterm,ttcompat -T vt100 -i 'Terminal Disabled.' \
-p 'modem login: '`" -y " Modem port ttya"
# pmadm -l
9.) Add a line to /etc/remote to support "tip".
# echo "cuaa:dv=/dev/cua/a:br#38400" >> /etc/remote
10.) Ensure the devices are setup properly. Verify them.
# chown uucp /devices/obio/zs*:a*
# chgrp sys /devices/obio/zs*:a*
# chmod 666 /devices/obio/zs*:a*
# ls -las /devices/obio/zs*:a*
11.) Remove any processes (and lock files) attached to term/a. These
cause the dreaded "All ports busy" message.
# ps -elf | grep "term/a" | awk '{ print $4 }' | xargs -i -t kill -9 {}
# rm /var/spool/locks/LK*
12.) Talk to the modem and set it up (modify as necessary for your
particular modem). Note the two at&w steps which help if the
at&c1 command kicks you out of tip. If it does, get back in and
issue the remaining commands.
# tip cuaa
[connected]
at&f reset active to factory defaults for a clean slate
ate1 echo characters in command state
atq2 do not return result codes when answering
atw1 return negotiation progress messages
ats0=1 auto answer after 1 rings.
ats37=15 set max modulation speed to 28.8K.
ats11=60 speed up dialing by shortening inter-DTMF delays
ats70=32 increase max # frame retransmissions (default is 10)
at&k3 use hardware flow control instead of XON/XOFF
at&q5 Error control mode
at&d3 Monitor DTR signal, hangup & reset if on->off.
at&s0 assert DSR always
at&w save these custom settings in the user profile
at&c1 track presence of carrier detect signal.
at&w save these custom settings in the user profile
~. exit out of tip
13.) Find TWO free IP addresses on the SAME (sub)net as the Sun
workstation. One will be used for the serial port "network
interface" and the other will be assigned to the remote PC.
You can do this by asking your network folks, or by using
ping (to detect non-registered devices) AND nslookup (to detect
registered but unavailable devices). Here is a quick little
sh script to find open slots on a "class C" or 8-bit subnetted
Class B net. This works for Solaris. Modify the ping and
nslookup statements as necessary for your OS.
#!/bin/sh
# Dave Brillhart - (c) 1995
net=132.158.62
ip=0
while [ $ip -lt 256 ]
do
ping $net.$ip 2 > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
nslookup $net.$ip | grep -i find
fi
ip=`expr $ip + 1`
done
14.) Once you find two free IP addresses - come up with unique names
and ask your DNS folks to register the addresses. Be sure to
request both forward ("A" or name-to-IP) and reverse ("PTR" or
IP-to-name) mappings. The reverse mappings are required to
satisfy some services which employee domain filtering.
For example, my addresses are:
132.158.62.200 unix_ppp.mis.semi.harris.com
132.158.62.205 pc_ppp.mis.semi.harris.com
15.) Now enter the two new addresses in your /etc/hosts file. Do this
even if you use DNS - since PPP starts up prior to the name
service.
132.158.62.200 unix_ppp
132.158.62.205 pc_ppp
16.) Create the "PPP" user account by editing the /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow files. Here are my entries. Change the password for
the ppp_user account using the "passwd" command.
/etc/passwd
------------
ppp_user:x:1115:10:PPP User:/:/usr/sbin/aspppls
/etc/shadow
------------
ppp_user:e465dfvf2sqwi:9119::::::
17.) Add the following to the bottom of the /etc/asppp.cf file. Modify
the names of your two IP addresses.
ifconfig ipdptp0 plumb unix_ppp pc_ppp up netmask +
path
ipcp_async_map 0
inactivity_timeout 90000
interface ipdptp0
peer_system_name ppp_user
18.) Add a published "arp" entry for the new interface. First find the
Physical address (ethernet address) of the network adapter attached
to the ethernet (mine is le0). Substitute your ethernet address and
the DNS name of your remote PC.
ifconfig -a | grep ether
/usr/sbin/arp -s pc_ppp 8:0:20:11:e4:2d pub
/usr/sbin/arp -a
19.) Create a file so that the arp entry is added at boot time. I called
the file "/etc/rc3.d/S99arp_ppp". Owner: root. Perm: 755. It
contains the following line.
# echo "/usr/sbin/arp -s pc_ppp 8:0:20:11:e4:2d pub" > /etc/rc3.d/S99arp_ppp
# chown root /etc/rc3.d/S99arp_ppp
# chmod 755 /etc/rc3.d/S99arp_ppp
20.) Create (or append to) the file /etc/gateways and add the following
line. Kill and restart in.routed.
norip ipdptp0
21.) Create a defaultrouter entry in the file /etc/defaultreouter. This
will eliminate the possibility of RIP packets and IP forwarding
down the PPP pipe. This also disables Solaris' dynamic routing.
Determine which router to put in by running "netstat -r" and
using the most common "gateway" entry. The file should contain
a single line such as the following (use the IP address for your
router). I had to reboot for this to take effect. HUPing
in.routed did not do the trick.
132.158.62.254
21.) Manually start the PPP process. This is not normally needed since
it will start at boot time.
/etc/init.d/asppp start (replace start with stop to stop it)
22.) Verify things are working:
a.) ps -e | grep asppp
b.) tail /var/adm/log/asppp.log
c.) arp -a (verify arp entry)
d.) ifconfig -a (verify ipdptp0 entry)
e.) netstat -rn | egrep "default|ipdptp0"
verify only one default pointed to router and
that there is an ipdptp0 entry.
132.158.62.205 132.158.62.200 UH 2 76 ipdptp0
default 132.158.62.254 UG 0 1796
At this point, you can fire up your PC software. I use both Trumpet
Winsock and Netmanage's Chameleon_Sampler. They both work great. I've
been on for days, using Netscape, telnet, finger, FTP, and other
clients simultaneously. I've even got NCD's PC-Xware to work as an
X-server over the PPP link, but that only works with Chameleon.
Good Luck... Let me know if you have any other questions.
*******************************************************************************
Hello Dave,
I am haveing the same problems. I have setup uucp many times. I can get the modem to dal-out and call local bbs systems.
When I try to connect to my internet provider, I can't get the scripting to work.
These are the files that you need to configure.
/etc/uucp/Systems
/etc/uucp/Dialers
/etc/uucp/Devices
/etc/asppp.cf
The command to start PPP is:
/etc/init.d/asppp start
If you look in the script you will see the command:
/usr/sbin/aspppd -d 1
change the 1 to 9 and then the log file in:
/var/adm/log/asppp.log
will contain the results of you efforts.
Please keep me informed about your progress for I am walking down the same path..
Cheers
Q.Ray
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I am trying to set up my home machine through a local provider, best.com, in
Mt View. When I got the account, he handed me a page of IP numbers:
Gateway IP
DNS nameserver IP
NNTP IP
Shell IP
ftp IP
www/http IP
smtp/pop Mail Server IP
On my home system, I use the following approach, and it works well,
except that DNS responses from my provider are painfully slow. Cautions
and examples are given at the end of this email. If you find better ways
I can do some of this, please let me know.
Good luck,
dennis
/etc/uucp/Systems:
Ptest Any ACU 38400 Phone# "" P_ZERO login:--login: PPPlogin word:--word: Passwd
/etc/uucp/Devices:
ACU cua/a - Any hayes
a.) Add a line to /etc/remote to support "tip".
# echo "cuaa:dv=/dev/cua/a:br#38400" >> /etc/remote
b) Ensure the devices are setup properly. Verify them.
# chown uucp /devices/obio/zs*:a*
# chgrp sys /devices/obio/zs*:a*
# chmod 666 /devices/obio/zs*:a*
# ls -las /devices/obio/zs*:a*
c) Remove any processes (and lock files) attached to term/a. These
cause the dreaded "All ports busy" message.
# ps -elf | grep "term/a" | awk '{ print $4 }' | xargs -i -t kill -9 {}
# rm /var/spool/locks/LK*
d) Talk to the modem and set it up (modify as necessary for your
particular modem). Note the two at&w steps which help if the
at&c1 command kicks you out of tip. If it does, get back in and
issue the remaining commands.
# tip cuaa
[connected]
at&f reset active to factory defaults for a clean slate
ate1 echo characters in command state
atq2 do not return result codes when answering
atw1 return negotiation progress messages
ats0=1 auto answer after 1 rings.
ats37=15 set max modulation speed to 28.8K.
ats11=60 speed up dialing by shortening inter-DTMF delays
ats70=32 increase max # frame retransmissions (default is 10)
at&k3 use hardware flow control instead of XON/XOFF
at&q5 Error control mode
at&d3 Monitor DTR signal, hangup & reset if on->off.
at&s0 assert DSR always
at&w save these custom settings in the user profile
at&c1 track presence of carrier detect signal.
at&w save these custom settings in the user profile
~. exit out of tip
1. Insert all IP addresses into hosts table, to be able to use names.
Your provider needs to give you the names. You can determine them
using nslookup at work, but that is a nuisance.
2. Create /etc/resolv.conf, and add your domainname and nameserver lines.
Your provider can provide the domainname (probably best.com, unless they
have a multi-location operation). The DNS nameserver goes on the
nameserver line.
3. Edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to use relay mailer ether, and relay host
should be the smtp server. This hostname needs to be accurate.
4. Most news readers (like xvnews and Mosaic/Netscape) refer to the
environment variable NNTPSERVER to find the NNTP server. Set that
in your environment before invoking the reader. This can go in your
.profile, .cshrc, or whatever, depending on what shell you use.
5. Different www clients use different mechanisms for locating/identifying
their home page, but as an example, netscape allows you to put the
URL into the preference sheet under Styles.
6. If you want to use a shell acount on their machine, you would do
something along the lines of telnet .
7. For ftp to their server, again do ftp .
8. The gateway hostname can go into the /etc/gateways file. Check the
man page (in.routed man page) for syntax.
9. For the actual PPP connection, the only thing that counts is the
machine you dial up to (most likely the gateway machine). You will
have to edit the /etc/uucp/{Systems,Dialers,Devices} with things
like your preferred modem setup unless you like one of the defaults
(one of my character flaws, I guess, I don't like any of them),
dialing info for the gateway machine (note that our PPP is broken,
and ignores the time-to-call field, disaster for a lot of us), and
what serial port you have your modem connected to. Then edit the
/etc/asppp.cf file to configure the ipdptp0 interface.
10.For Netscape and Mosaic you'll have to enable host DNS lookup by setting
the hosts entry in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to
dns [NOTFOUND=return] files.
Notes for the examples:
I have my modem configured to power-on in the mode I like to use for my
PPP configuration. DISABLE LOGINS ON THE MODEM PORT. I don't recall the
nameserver IP address of my DNS server, so the example has a bogus
address for resolv.conf. After I login to my provider, there is a delay
(SCO on Intel at the provider) and I get a menu with a choice prompt.
To start PPP, I choose choice # 3. I also found that I had to put a
delay at the end of the chat script in /etc/uucp/Systems, or I couldn't
get connected. Loopback problems and config error problems, caused by
the remote system still being in echo mode on the line when my machine
started sending the first PPP configure packets. Also, I have yet to
find a 2.3 or 2.4 setup where ttymon grabs the line after PPP times out
and disconnects (but before the modem has recognized a DTR-down
condition (my speculation is that our streams stuff doesn't actually
take DTR down)) causing the line to essentially be hung. This is
avoided by not enabling ttymon on that port. In other words, in keeping
with Sun's long tradition, truly bidirectional lines are a crapshoot
on Suns. Yes, I have an escalated service order open on it, so do
our customers, and I am not holding my breath.
Examples for my home machine:
/etc/hosts:
165.154.15.142 daddy
165.154.1.1 noc mail
165.154.1.8 nnrp
127.0.0.1 localhost
/etc/resolv.conf:
domainname tor.hookup.net
nameserver 165.154.1.7
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf:
- stuff not included here for brevity -
Dmether
- stuff not included here for brevity -
DRmail.tor.hookup.net
CRmail.tor.hookup.net
- stuff not included here for brevity -
~/.cshrc:
- stuff not included here for brevity -
setenv NNTPSERVER nnrp.tor.hookup.net
- stuff not included here for brevity -
net default gateway noc metric 1 passive
/etc/uucp/Dialers (I have the power-on settings of my modem set up for 14.4K):
wb144 =W-, "" \dAT\r\c OK\r \EATDT\T\r\c CONNECT
/etc/uucp/Devices:
ACUWB cua/0 - Any wb144
/etc/uucp/Systems:
noc Any ACUWB 38400 somenumbertodial in:-\r-in: myloginnamegoeshere rd: mypasswordgoeshere "" \d\d\c choice: 3 "" \d\d\d\c
/etc/asppp.cf:
ifconfig ipdptp0 plumb daddy noc netmask 0xffffff00 -trailers up
path
inactivity_timeout 90000
interface ipdptp0
peer_system_name noc
debug_level 9
/etc/nsswitch.conf:
- stuff not included here for brevity -
hosts: dns [NOTFOUND=return] files
- stuff not included here for brevity -
services: files
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