Manual PPP Script How-To?

Andrew.Loughhead at csiro.au Andrew.Loughhead at csiro.au
Tue Apr 23 17:31:57 EST 2002


Yes, but then I would not have the benefit of your most 
informative answer.  Having had a hard time myself setting 
up ppp on debian in the past, its the kind of information 
which encourages me to give debian another go.  

Andrew (returning to long time lurking, and hopefully learning). 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Couter [mailto:scouter at bigpond.net.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 April 2002 1:36 PM
> To: linux at samba.org
> Subject: Re: Manual PPP Script How-To?
> 
> 
> Chris Wallis <walski at xis.com.au> wrote:
> > Just wondering if anyone could point me towards a how-to on 
> how to setup 
> > and manually configure PPP and dialler in Debian testing
> 
> Did you ask Google first? Top link on this search:
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=ppp+howto
> 
> > ... cause it doesn?t 
> > have the nice pppconfig setup program.
> 
> Did you ask apt-cache first?
> 
> sam at krusty:~$ apt-cache search pppconfig
> pppconfig - A text menu based utility for configuring ppp.
> sam at krusty:~$ apt-cache show pppconfig
> Package: pppconfig
> Priority: optional
> Section: base
> Installed-Size: 93
> Maintainer: John Hasler <jhasler at debian.org>
> Architecture: all
> Version: 2.0.14
> Depends: ppp (>= 2.3.7), whiptail | dialog
> Filename: pool/main/p/pppconfig/pppconfig_2.0.14_all.deb
> Size: 26852
> MD5sum: 4cf20c32ddc0a1539b765eb82b702fb0
> Description: A text menu based utility for configuring ppp.
>  It provides extensive explanations at each step.  pppconfig supports
>  PAP, CHAP, and chat methods of authentication.  It uses the standard
>  ppp configuration files and sets ppp up so that the standard pon and
>  poff commands can be used to control ppp.
>  Some features supported by pppconfig are:
>   - Multiple ISPs with separate nameservers.
>   - Modem detection.
>   - Dynamic DNS.
>   - Dial on demand.
> Task: dialup
> 
> sam at krusty:~$
> 
> You could have done this research yourself in a few seconds and had
> results faster.
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