Hi, Filippo,
Here is what I have:
Linux Slackware 2.0.30 running on a i486/24MbRAM -PCI Motherboard, SIS
Chipset- (cheap configuration...).
I had made some optimizations to the linux kernel (recompiled it ...)
mostly to use my linux box as a router. You shuld enable those options:
1) CONFIG_IP_ROUTER
2) CONFIG_PPP -setting up kernel support for PPP conections
3) CONFIG_FIREWALL -if you need a firewall (optionall, but it's a good
thing to have it)
4) CONFIG_IP_ACCT -if you want to do some accounting to your
dial-up or leased line clients
5) You shuld configure support for your multiport serial board
(whatever you may have... I use a Cyclom-Y -RISC-based: check
www.cyclades.com)
On the pppd side, I also use 2.3.8 version. The options file shuld contain
the following settings:
asyncmap ffffffff
crtscts
escape ff
lock
modem
netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
passive
#I use 542 as mtu and is working just fine on a leased line over 2 Courier
#x2 modems, at 31200bps connection rate.
mtu 542
proxyarp
Well, about calling the ppp daemon:
Before the 2.3.8, the "persist" option was not working well... (At least
for me...) Now, in that configuration, the 2.3.8 version does not need
another program to watch over the ppp link. You shuld call it like this:
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/your_serial_device 115200 persist &
If you want to assign an IP address to the peer you shuld append:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:bbb.bbb.bbb.bbb
where the first address is your IP addreess (of your linux router) and the
second is the peer's.
Just one more hint:
Yoy can use anothe good program, called "slirp". It is not mantained
anymore, but it will help you starting slip/ppp connections.
I use it since 1997.
And, as we say it here, in Romania:
Macaronare, treci la lucru!
Have a nice day!
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Horia Chirculescu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Filippo Carletti wrote:
> I would like to know if someone has some advice on some options for a linux
> based access server, something like suggested mtu and mru, considering that
> clients connecting will be mostly windows.
> Moreover, some suggestions for silent or passive options.
> pppd will be 2.3.8
>
> Ciao,
> Filippo.
>
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