Re: Solaris 2.3 PPP

[jhill () srd bt co uk (Jake Hill)]

I said:
> Does anybody know about the bugs in Solaris 2.3? I know some patches are
> included in the 2.4 release, but I don't know what they fixed. I've got
> a null modem between a 2.3 and a 2.4 box. Every time a connection is
> established, the 2.3 unit panics (text fault).

Tis a bug - a big one (I should have read the patch info properly)...
> 1156280: PPP causes system to crash
>
> ppp will crash the system during option negotiation if the peer machine
> sends a NAK of certain options.

God knows how Sun missed that one :-) Anyway, with 2.4 installed on both
boxes the thing works very nicely thankyou. It would seem however, that
the admintool in 2.4 has holes in it - at least the serial manager doesn't
appear to be able to set serial port options properly. It works ok if I
use pmadm -a to add services, but the Serial port manager stops it working.
It falls over a lot too. I think this thing is rather too complicated for
it's own good.


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