mgetty and PPP under Sun Solaris 2.3

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Lupe Christoph (lupe@alanya.m.isar.de) wrote:
: gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) writes:

: >George Travan wrote:
: >> 	I have just been looking at the possiblity of Faxing from
: >> 	one of our Suns (Solaris 2.3). This sun runs PPP without
: >> 	any problems.

: >mgetty should work on Solaris 2.x just fine (I didn't try it myself
: >yet, but I received success reports).

: I can add another two - Solaris 2.4 on SPARC and x86.

2.x mean's 2.4 too. :-)

: >> 	I was just, considering trying mgetty, but It occurs to me
: >> 	that this might be a problem due to the port monitoring
: >> 	processes that Solaris uses for its PPP.

: >In what way is this port monitor needed for PPP? If it is just SVR4's
: >"ttymon", you can replace it with mgetty, and PPP should be fine.

: The dial-in is via a regular login, using aspppls (ASync PPP Login
: Service) as a shell. You can do this with mgetty, of course. I'm not
: using asppp, though, but dp-3.1.4.

: >For dialout, you must make sure that PPPD will do proper device locking,
: >dunno whether Sun got this right.

: Dialout uses the uucp dialer, so I suppose locking should be alright.

But in Solaris 2.3(SPARC) ppp was broken, so the Lockfiles created by
ppp were not useable. Sun's hotline did know this problem. They told me,
NOT to use ppp and other dialin/dialout services (for ex. uucp) on the
same serial port. :-(

With 2.4 I didn't try that bad game again.

Stefan

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