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Solstice PPP 3.0.1 Administration Guide
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Preface
Chapter 1 Introducing Solstice PPP
Overview
Feature Summary
Product Conformance
Running IP Applications over Solstice PPP
Establishing the Physical Connection
Synchronous Connections
Asynchronous Connections
Establishing PPP over the Physical Connection
Establishing IP over PPP
Point-to-Point IP Interfaces (ipdptpn)
Point-to-Multipoint IP Interfaces (ipdn)
Load-Sharing for Synchronous PPP Links
Dynamic IP Address Allocation
Static and Dynamic IP Interfaces
Peer Authentication using PAP and CHAP
Password Authentication Protocol (PAP)
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)
Solstice PPP Product Architecture
Chapter 2 Configuring Solstice PPP using pppinit
About pppinit
Adding Hosts for Solstice PPP
Using pppinit
Configuring Synchronous Links
Configuring Synchronous Devices
Configuring IP Interfaces for Synchronous Devices
Configuring Asynchronous Links
Configuring Asynchronous Devices
Configuring Modem Pools (optional)
Configuring Remote Hosts for Dialing
Configuring IP Interfaces to Answer Calls
Configuring IP Interfaces to Dial Calls
Enabling Dynamic IP Address Allocation
Saving your Configuration
Adding User Accounts for Incoming Connections
Chapter 3 Starting and Using Solstice PPP
Starting Solstice PPP
Starting Solstice PPP at Boot Time
Starting Solstice PPP Manually
Establishing PPP Links
IP Connections over Synchronous Links
IP Connections over Asynchronous Links
IP Connections using Dynamic IP Address Allocation
Closing PPP Links
Stopping Solstice PPP
Chapter 4 Editing the Configuration Files
Configuration Files for Solstice PPP
Editing the PPP Path Configuration File (ppp.conf)
Defining IP Interfaces using ifconfig
Defining a Pool of IP Interfaces for Dynamic IP Address Allocation
Defining Synchronous Paths (sync_path)
Defining Asynchronous Paths (dialup_path)
Assigning Path Defaults
Editing the Link Configuration File (link.conf)
Defining Synchronous Devices
Defining Asynchronous Devices
Defining a Pool of Asynchronous Devices
Defining Remote Hosts
Editing the Modem Database File (modems)
Editing the CHAT (or Connect) Scripts
Changing the Login Id and Password
Changing the Number of Call Initiation Attempts
Changing the Login Dialog
Interactive CHAT Scripts
CHAT Script Syntax
Chapter 5 Example Configurations
Synchronous LAN to LAN Configuration
Load-Sharing over Synchronous Links
Virtual Subnetwork Configuration
Asynchronous Client/Server Configuration
Generic Internet Server Configuration
Null Modem Configuration
Advanced IP Routing Configuration
Configuration using the Domain Name Service (DNS)
Running PPP over PAD over X.25
Chapter 6 Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
First Steps in Troubleshooting
Solving Common Problems
Problems Installing Solstice PPP
Problems with Licensing
Problems Configuring Solstice PPP
Problems Using Solstice PPP
Checking the Physical Layer for Synchronous Links
Using ppptrace
Tracing PPP Frames
Displaying PPP Frame Contents
PPP Trace Examples
Trace Example 1--Successful Link Establishment
Trace Example 2 -- Failed CHAP Negotiation
Trace Example 3 -- Successful CHAP Negotiation
Trace Example 4 -- Dump of Successful ping
Trace Example 5 -- Dump of Successful telnet Session
Using pppstat
Displaying IP Statistics
Displaying PPP Error Statistics
Displaying PPP LCP Statistics
Displaying IP NCP Statistics
Checking the IP Routing
Checking the Protocol Status (ifconfig)
Checking the IP Connectivity (ping)
Checking the Routing Tables (netstat)
Checking the Packet Flow (snoop)
Understanding the Log File
Successful Connection Attempt
Problems Configuring Solstice PPP
Problems Getting the Modem Connection
Problems with the CHAT Script
Problems with PPP Negotiation
Problems with PAP and CHAP Authentication
Problems with the Inactivity Timeout
Status and Error Messages
Status Messages
Configuration Error Messages
System Error Messages
Files and Directories
Appendix A PPP Link Operation
PPP Phase Diagram
Link Establishment Phase
Peer Authentication Phase (optional)
Network Layer Protocol Phase
Link Termination Phase
PPP Frames
Link Control Protocol (LCP) Frames
Link Configuration Frames
Link Termination Frames
Link Maintenance Frames
Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) Frames
PAP Authenticate-request Frames
PAP Authenticate-ack and Authenticate-nak Frames
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) Frames
CHAP Challenge and Response Frames
CHAP Success and Failure Frames
Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) Frames
Internet Protocol (IP) Frames
Appendix B Modem and Null Modem Cables
Standard EIA-232-E Modem Cables
IPC/IPX Adapter Cables
Asynchronous EIA-232-E Null Modem
Synchronous EIA-232-E Null Modems
Synchronous EIA-449 Null Modems
X.21 to EIA-449 Converter
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