Date: Sat, 30 Dec 95 07:51:05 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #38 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 30 Dec 95 Volume 8 : Issue 38 Today's Topics: Ethernet Problems on a 3/50 Looking for binary X distribution for sun3 serial problems at 28.8 k Solaris 2.5 PPP configuration Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #37 www browser without slip/ppp/term +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 09:06:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Anthony D'Atri" Subject: Ethernet Problems on a 3/50 To: Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com This isn't all that unusual, especially if you've got an older PROM. What rev is the PROM in the affected machine? - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 12:18:38 -0700 (MST) From: tom@as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) Subject: Looking for binary X distribution for sun3 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I am running a 3/160 monochrome system (900x1152), and will soon be running a sun 3/60 as well. I would much rather run X than sunview. Can anyone tell me where I can snap up X precompiled for a monochrome sun3? Obviously I am just a bit lazy about getting the sources and compiling it all myself. Thanks!! Tom - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 95 11:50:44 -0800 From: robert@slipknot.rain.com Subject: serial problems at 28.8 k To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a Sparcstation 1 (4/60 ?) running SunOs 4.1.3, and I recently acquired a US Robotics v.34 (28.8 k) modem that I still haven't gotten to work right. I have basically three problems, though two of them might be related. 1. Though I can get my system to accept calls and to dial out to my uucp neighbor at a baud rate of 19200 (14400 through the modem), when I try to bump it to 38400 (28800 through the modem), both dial-ins and dial-outs fail. 2. tip fails to connect to hosts defined in /etc/remote and phones in /etc/phones. Gives me a connection failed message. However, at 19200 I can tip to hardwire, raise the modem, do a manual ATDT to the desired phone number, and establish a connection. 3. Using tip with the above hardwire method at 38400, I run into what looks like overrun problems even though I've set the tip hardwareflow variable and set crtscts on the remote host. For example, trying to run pine on the remote machine quickly leads to some sort of feedback loop with some barely readable message in the dialog which looks like it's complaining about Xon characters. Could 1 and 3 be related? For that matter, could 1 and 2 be related. My guess is that using the Hayes ACU model, tip is failing to recognize the connection-successful result from the modem. But remote.1 says nothing about configuring this stuff, at least that I could find. - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 22:27:22 -0800 From: Yuval Tamir Subject: Solaris 2.5 PPP configuration To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I am trying to figure out the proper configuration for a Solaris 2.5 machine with the following characteristics and requirements I) not connected to an ethernet II) boots and operates without error messages standalone (including running X and dtcm under X) III) operates properly with PPP (proper routing, use of DNS) I would like to hear from people who have this kind of setup running. Although this seems to me to be the standard requirements for a home (or "remote office") machine, the Sun docs don't address it directly. I have already looked through all the appropriate answerbook and man pages. Some issue/questions are 1) /etc/hostname.le0 -- it seems that this file should not be installed since there is no ethernet is connected. This seems to require "route add host-name localhost 0" in order to get things to work. Is this the proper setup ? This setup (with the "route add") seems to confuse some programs. For example, /usr/dt/bin/dtcm does not start properly even though it does start okay when there is a hostname.le0 file. 2) Is there a need for an /etc/defaultrouter file ? It seems not (PPP will set it up upon connection). However, this starts up in.routed during boot. Should the startup of in.routed be disabled ? 3) In order to use DNS, nsswitch.conf is modified to include "hosts: files dns". However, if there is no hostname.le0, when the program /usr/dt/bin/dtcm starts up, it tries to do a DNS lookup (using the new 'door' IPC mechanism). This causes dtcm to hang. Again, if hostname.le0 is installed dtcm starts properly, but generates a syslog error message. Yuval Tamir ( tamir@cs.ucla.edu ) - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 19:34:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Alec.Muffett@UK.Sun.COM (Alec Muffett) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #37 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com >It's not the ultimate in glitzy GUIs :=), but I'd suggest kermit. >It's solid, free, and runs on just about every computer/OS there is, >I believe including Solaris 2. (I can't confirm this personally.) >If you raise the sliding window size up a bit, it's reasonably >efficient at file transfers. For the record, if you want a terminal emulator and a serial multiplexer for Solaris, I'd look into compiling "Minicom 1.72" and "Term 2.3.5" respectively, both of which I've found to be wonderful, and with better integration to the "Unix" way of doing things than gool ol' Kermit... Check "archie" for your nearest site. - alec - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 95 14:35:46 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: www browser without slip/ppp/term To: gary@sabot.com > Date: Wed, 20 Dec 95 12:24:56 EST > From: gary@sabot.com (Gary Sabot) > > Does anyone know of any solution that would let me run a graphical web > browser on a remote unix machine that I would dial into and display > the results on my unix machine? I want to avoid actually putting my > machine on the net while I'm dialed up with slip/ppp/term/ etc, so I > don't have to worry about security issues, firewalls, etc. Last I heard, term is not really a router but rather a proxy system and it would not expose you as much as SLIP or PPP. Even with a true IP connection, if the net machine you dial into is not a router -- i.e. it has ip forwarding turned off in the kernel -- it _is_ a firewall and you are fairly secure. Only someone who is logged into that machine can initiate a connection to your machine. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************