🚀 go-pugleaf

I apologize for the level of ignorance this question represents; I
thought I was going to have time to learn about this stuff leisurely.

The situation is that I wish to connect 2 SPARCstation2 via a phone
line.  One workstation would be at home, the other would be on the
network at the office.  Both workstations are running SunOS 4.1.1.
My tentative plan is to acquire a pair of modems (possibly Telebit
QBlazers) and to use the PPP software I obtained by ftp from ohio-state.
edu (ppp-sunos4.1p16).  My desire is to have the machine at home
seem as much like a machine on the net at the office as possible.

(At the office, we use the automounter.  I assume that from home
I would want to keep file system mounting to a minimum and only
do so when needed.)

Questions:

1. Is this a reasonable approach?  Any major drawbacks I should know
   about?  What kind of performance am I likely to see?  Any
   problems with the PPP software and SunOS 4.1.1?

2. Does building, installing, configuring, etc. require a guru?  The
   PPP software appears to have nice, clear cookbook instructions
   which can be followed by a neophyte.  Any additional hints or tips 
   someone would like to pass on?  What about setting up the modems?

3. Any comments on choice of modems?  (Cost is a factor.)  If there's
   a random modem available for free, what minimum capability should
   it have?


Any other advice (or questions I should be asking) is appreciated.

Thanks,
Susan Hunts (susanh@ossi.com)