ppp/README.sol2
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This file describes the installation process for ppp-2.3 on systems
running Solaris 2. The Solaris 2 and SVR4 ports share a lot of code
but are not identical. The STREAMS kernel modules and driver for
Solaris 2 are in the svr4 directory (and use some code from the
modules directory).
This version has been tested under Solaris 2.6.
NOTE: Although the kernel driver and modules have been designed to
operate correctly on SMP systems, they have not been extensively
tested on SMP machines. Some users of SMP Solaris x86 systems have
reported system problems apparently linked to the use of previous
versions of this software. I believe these problems have been fixed.
Installation.
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1. Run the configure script and make the user-level programs and the
kernel modules.
./configure
make
If you wish to use gcc (or another compiler) instead of Sun's cc, edit
the svr4/Makedefs file and uncomment the definition of CC. You can
also change the options passed to the C compiler by editing the COPTS
definition.
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. You can
change the installation directories by editing svr4/Makedefs.
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 1
See the man page for ip(7p) for details.