From: Paul Mackerras Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 01:53:44 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mods to readme files to add Solaris-2. X-Git-Tag: RELEASE_2_3_6~672 X-Git-Url: http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ppp.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=225af82e3d41bbf2833486a01b0a0db2d67a3844 Mods to readme files to add Solaris-2. --- diff --git a/README b/README index 8b928a6..62f31af 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ files, are: OSF/1 README.osf AIX 4.x README.aix4 NeXTStep README.next + Solaris 2 README.svr4 In each case you start by running the ./configure script. This works out which operating system you are using and creates symbolic links to @@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ What is new in ppp-2.2. OSF/1 on DEC Alpha, thanks to Steve Tate (srt@zaphod.csci.unt.edu) NextStep 3.2 and 3.3, thanks to Philip-Andrew Prindeville (philipp@res.enst.fr) and Steve Perkins (perkins@cps.msu.edu) + Solaris 2 in addition to NetBSD 1.0, SunOS 4.x, Ultrix 4.x, FreeBSD 2.0, and Linux. @@ -165,8 +167,6 @@ This copyright applies to (parts of) the following files: sunos/ppp_async.c sunos/ppp_if.c - osf1/ppp_async.c - osf1/ppp_if.c aix4/ppp_async.c aix4/ppp_if.c net/ppp_str.h diff --git a/README.svr4 b/README.svr4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2774020 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.svr4 @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +The System V Release 4 (svr4) port of this software has been developed +under Solaris 2, which has some extensions which are not available on +all SVR4 systems, particularly in the area of multi-thread (MT) +support in the kernel. Although the code supplied here may work under +other SVR4 systems, these instructions are specifically for Solaris 2. + +Installation. +************* + +1. Run the configure script and make the user-level programs and the +kernel modules. + + ./configure + make + +2. Install the programs and kernel modules: as root, do + + make install + +This installs pppd, chat and pppstats in /usr/local/bin and the kernel +modules in /kernel/drv and /kernel/strmod, and creates the /etc/ppp +directory and populates it with default configuration files. + +If your system normally has only one network interface, the default +Solaris 2 system startup scripts will disable IP forwarding in the IP +kernel module. This will prevent the remote machine from using the +local machine as a gateway to access other hosts. The solution is to +create an /etc/ppp/ip-up script containing something like this: + + #!/bin/sh + /usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forwarding 2 +