Preface

The Solstice PPP User's Guide tells you how to use the Solstice PPP product to connect your machine to remote servers across a public telephone network.

Solstice PPP is a standard implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) which defines a standard method for transporting multiprotocol datagrams across serial connections. This means that it can interoperate with all other standard implementations of PPP.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for users with no experience connecting PPP clients, and with limited experience of the Solaris operating environment. It assumes that your system administrator or Internet provider has configured the remote server to accept your calls, and has given you all the information you need to configure your client machine.

Before You Read This Book

This book assumes that you have already installed the product software. It also assumes that you have the information you need to configure your client machine. For example, the telephone number of the server to which you are connecting your machine.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, Introducing Solstice PPP, describes how to use Solstice PPP to connect your client machine to remote servers across the public telephone network..

Chapter 2, Configuring Your Solstice PPP Client, tells you how to use the configuration script pppinit(1m)to configure your Solstice PPP client.

Chapter 3, Connecting your Solstice PPP Client to a Server, tells you how to use ppptool(1m)to connect your Solstice PPP client to a remote server, and how to run common network applications such as mailtool(1) and the Netscape^TM web browser over a PPP link.

Chapter 4, Solving Problems with Your Solstice PPP Client, describes how to detect and resolve common problems with Solstice PPP installed on a client machine.

Appendix A, Configuration Files and CHAT Scripts, describes the syntax of the CHAT scripts used by Solstice PPP, and includes examples of both interactive and non-interactive CHAT scripts.

What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% You have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output	machine_name% su Password:
AaBbCc123	Command-line placeholder:  replace with a real name or value	To delete a file, type rm filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	machine_name%
C shell superuser prompt	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	#