Configuring PPP

If point-to-point protocol (PPP) is enabled on the serial port, RSC supports multiple sessions, either shell or GUI, through one modem connection. If PPP is not enabled, only one session can be run over the modem, and it must be a shell session. RSC supports multiple sessions over its Ethernet port.

To use PPP for dialing in to the RSC serial port, the RSC configuration variable ppp_enabled must be set to true, or PPP must be enabled using the RSC GUI. In addition, you must configure PPP on each client machine that will use PPP to dial in to RSC accounts on the RSC serial port.

Configuring PPP on the Client

To allow connection to RSC from a remote client using PPP, you must configure PPP on the client. For a Solaris client, see Configuring and Using Solstice PPP 3.0.1 Clients. For a Windows client, see your Windows documentation.

The Solstice PPP 3.0.1 client configuration script /usr/bin/pppinit creates a CHAT script in /etc/opt/SUNWconn/ppp/script that defines the dialog that occurs between a client and server during the connection phase. The contents of this CHAT script are not needed to establish a PPP connection to RSC. In order to successfully establish connection to RSC from a Solstice PPP client, comment or delete the contents of the CHAT script, but do not delete the file.