Morning Star PPP Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS.......................................................................................................................1 WELCOME............................................................................................................................................8 INSTALLING PPP................................................................................................................................9 OBTAINING SOFTWARE VIA FTP.................................................................................................................9 OBTAINING SOFTWARE IN OTHER FORMATS...............................................................................................9 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS...................................................................................................................9 UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OFMS PPP................................................................................9 SYSTEM-SPECIFIC DETAILS.........................................................................................................10 LICENSE KEYS..................................................................................................................................10 CONFIGURING PPP TO TEST A CONNECTION........................................................................11 UNDERSTANDINGPPP CONFIGURATIONF ILES........................................................................................11 Systems, Devices, and Dialers - An Analogy......................................................................................12 ARRANGING FORO UTBOUND ANDI NBOUND PPP CONNECTIONS...........................................................13 OVERVIEW..............................................................................................................................................13 THE OUTBOUND CONNECTION................................................................................................................14 Autostart - Starting ppp......................................................................................................................14 Systems - Adding an Entry for Connecting to lark.............................................................................14 Devices - Adding an Entry for Connecting tolark .............................................................................15 Dialers - Adding an Entry for Connecting to lark..............................................................................15 Connection among the configuration files...................................................................................................... 15 THE INBOUND CONNECTION...................................................................................................................15 Adding an account for robin to log in to lark.....................................................................................15 Creating robin's Login Shell Script....................................................................................................16 Checking Permissions.................................................................................................................................... 16 TESTING THE ROBIN-LARK LINK...............................................................................................................17 ADDITIONALI NFORMATION.....................................................................................................................18 Non-Generic Login Scripts.................................................................................................................18 Creating a Simple Filter File.............................................................................................................18 Note on Systems and Devices Entries.................................................................................................19 IP ADDRESSES ON THEPPPD COMMAND LINE ........................................................................................19 Soft Addresses....................................................................................................................................19 Dynamic address assignment.............................................................................................................20 Address Selected From a Small List...................................................................................................20 Address Calculated From tty Name...................................................................................................20 TIME-TO-CALL RESTRICTIONS................................................................................................................20 DIAL-BACK.............................................................................................................................................21 The Dial-Back Process.......................................................................................................................21 Blocking SIGHUP with the Chat Script \M Option............................................................................21 Reversing the Instructions with the \m Option...................................................................................21 LINK PEER AUTHENTICATION..................................................................................................................22 SECUREID...............................................................................................................................................22 MS PPP Support for SecureID Systems.............................................................................................22 The Shell Script/xprompt/Chat Script Process...................................................................................23 1 Morning Star PPP REPLACING GETTY WITH PPPD.................................................................................................................23 Invoking pppd under HP-UX.............................................................................................................23 SERIAL CONNECTIONS..................................................................................................................24 INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................24 SERIAL TRANSMISSION............................................................................................................................24 Synchronous and Asynchronous Transmission..................................................................................25 SERIAL INTERFACES................................................................................................................................25 Signaling ............................................................................................................................................25 Cabling for Serial Interfaces..............................................................................................................26 DB-25............................................................................................................................................................. 26 DB-9............................................................................................................................................................... 27 DB-9 to DB-25 Conversion........................................................................................................................... 28 HP Modem Cables......................................................................................................................................... 28 HP Modem Cable (700)............................................................................................................................. 28 HP Modem Cable (800)............................................................................................................................. 30 SPARC MiniDin-8 Modem Cable............................................................................................................. 30 NeXT etc. MiniDIN-8 Modem Cable............................................................................................................ 31 Other Serial Connectors.....................................................................................................................31 Null-Modem Cables....................................................................................................................................... 31 DB-25 to DB-25 Null-Modem Connections.................................................................................................. 32 Mini-DIN to DB-25 Null-Modem Connections............................................................................................. 32 DIAL UP MODEMS...................................................................................................................................34 Introduction........................................................................................................................................34 Speed..................................................................................................................................................34 Data Compression..............................................................................................................................35