I have a x86 Solaris 10 box up and running, but not using sppp. The maintenance to put this box live is not until the 22nd, so if I can help with tracking something down I can do so.
I did not have any immediate issues with IPFilter, the Solaris 10 installer program has a couple of minor things that could do with some attention maybe. (1 annoyance, and 1 cosmetic).
That and that there appears to be no IPFilter header files shipped with the OS.
Lund
Darren Reed wrote:
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 14:37 +1100, Darren Reed wrote: For now I give up. Solaris' own ipfilter is clearly not working and
using a self compiled ipfilter causes system crashes.
I'll clarify the situation here.
IPFilter with sppp does not work in Solaris10 "out of the box". This may be a bigger problem than first anticipated given that ADSL & pppoe is the way a lot of people connect to the Internet, today. I'll see what I can do about changing this situation but I cannot promise anyone anything.
Being able to fix a problem is, in general, directly proportional to the amount of information available to describe it. For example, if someone just says "I tried this and it panics", I don't know where to start for testing/replicating the problem. If I've got access to the crash dumps, I can dig, in depth, through information about what was happening. On the other hand, sending html (only) email doesn't work for me either (I read email using a command line program, not a web browser.)
I was quite determined to run Solaris but this and other issues are very frustrating.
I can understand.
For over a week now I try to get it working properly with only very limited success.
I'm sorry it wasn't a better experience for you.
Given the fact that a lot of Sun people treat Linux like a child implying Solaris' technical superiority I expected more from this OS.
Sometimes that "superiority" will lead to decisions being made not to support features that users desire, as is the case here, because the technical solution does not meet with internal requirements at Sun. In the Linux world, people can do anything and the bar is much much lower.
And amongst all this, the frustrating part for me is I'm not able (yet) to do anything to test all this for various reasons, including lack of equipment at home & at work (I'm living & working away from my normal place of residence for most of this year.) Even then, I'm not sure how to go about building up a PPPoE test rig that includes a server end of some kind so I could try test out what you're trying to do.
Darren
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