cec@cup.portal.com (Cerafin E Castillo) (12/27/90)
My experience in installing and using Brad Clements Async PPP from
Clarkson was the same. The 'usage: ...' message was wrong and,
when testing with a DOS KA9Q PPP version, a core dump would result
when executed. The fact that this code was developed on a Sun
386i might be part of the problem.
I would suggest either using a Sun 386i (aka doorstop) to install
and test the code released through omnigate.clarkson.edu, OR
create a SunOS (4.0.x/4.1) version using Drew Perkins' BSD4.3
PPP code (lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu). If someone has gotten this
code to work in a SunOS 4.0.x or 4.1 system, I would also like to
know. I tried with a Sun 3/60 SunOS 4.1 system.
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Starting with 4.3 code from Drew Perkins <ddp@andrew.cmu.edu>, Brad Clements <bkc@omnigate.clarkson.edu> ported the PPP drivers to a Sun386i under SunOS 4.0.2 and added STREAMS support. Karl Fox <karl@morningstar.com> ported that to a SPARC under SunOS 4.0.3, then worked with Dave Alden <alden@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu> to fix a few STREAMS bugs and some other problems you describe under SunOS 4.1. We run the results daily over Telebits and generic V.32 and 2400bps modems, between SPARCs running 4.0.3c and 4.1, with reasonable satisfaction. Get omnigate.clarkson.edu:pub/sun/ppp.tar.Z for starters. I have placed a copy of Karl's stuff in tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/ppp/*. That shar file contains not only the SPARC and SunOS4.1 patches, but also some READMEs and a few scripts that we have found convenient for managing a few intermittent connections.