mgetty and PPP under Sun Solaris 2.3

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muehlenw@samhh.hanse.de (Stefan A. Muehlenweg) writes:

>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. :-)

Just to nitpick - 2.x *should*, but 2.3 SPARC and 2.4 SPARC+x86 *do*
work OK.

>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. :-(

In 2.3 PPP was broken *beyond belief*. In 2.4 it seems to be running OK,
but I'm using dp, so I can only judged from other peoples' reports in
comp.unix.solaris, etc.

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

On x86, I went straight from 2.1 to 2.4. Quite some change... If I remember
correctly, 2.1 did not have asppp, so I *had* to use dp or some other
PPP implementation. I didn't change back, either.
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