X-Git-Url: https://git.ozlabs.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.svr4;fp=README.svr4;h=277402061b295981d301cc478c58a0e8d2f641e4;hb=225af82e3d41bbf2833486a01b0a0db2d67a3844;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=fcdd79cf516672a47a3dd24b8e01071763f62110;p=ppp.git 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 +