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.
--- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Waterhouse Computer System Manager BAeSEMA Ltd New Malden, England Phone: (++44) (0)181 942 9661 Fax: (++44) (0)181 949 8067 Email: john.waterhouse@baesema.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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