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From: earle@POSEUR.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Summary: PPP and/or SL/IP between SparcStations via v.42bis modems
Message-ID: <9101020943.AA05310@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 2 Jan 91 09:43:07 GMT
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In comp.protocols.tcp-ip article <9101011904.AA20885@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> you write:
>Well, I tried (on a Sun3/160 running SunOS 4.1) both the
>omnigate.clarkson.edu:pub/sun/ppp.tar.Z and the
>tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/ppp/* (with the patches applied)
>but I consistently got
>
>        ppp: ioctl(I_PUSH, ppp_async): Invalid argument
>
>(then quited to system prompt) for nearly all invocations of ppp.

The "ppp.h" file needs to be included in /sys/sun/str_conf.c at the end of the
#include section (before the start of the "#if	NFOO > 0" section).  Step 3
of the instructions failed to mention this.

*** Readme.streams.orig	Sun May 20 10:15:31 1990
--- Readme.streams	Wed Jan  2 01:35:20 1991
***************
*** 70,73 ****
--- 70,77 ----
  	   top of the file, where similar lines are located:
  
+ 		#include "ppp.h"
+ 
+ 		...
+ 
  		#if     NPPP > 0
  		extern struct streamtab ppp_asyncinfo;