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- PPP/SLIP configuration
- Introduction
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- PPP and SLIP are two means by which your computer may be hooked to a
- distant network using a serial line (with or without a modem).
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- In this setup, your computer is the one which call a PPP or SLIP
- server.
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- This is fairly new in _L_i_n_u_x_c_o_n_f. Comments are welcome. PPP and SLIP
- are not new to _L_i_n_u_x though.
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- One goal of the PPP/SLIP configurator is to present a single screen to
- configure everything needed for the configuration.
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- Another goal is to provide a good debugging environment to help user
- pinpoint problems easily.
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- You may have several different configurations. This allows you to
- connect to different provider (potentially at the same time if you
- have to modems).
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- PPP is the prefered protocol because of the way it can manage options
- negotiation at connect time. At this time SLIP is not supported at
- all.
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- Once configured, one configuration may be activated using the command
- line.
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- netconf --connect config [--fore]
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- Normally, _L_i_n_u_x_c_o_n_f establish the connexion and manage to go in
- background. The ----ffoorree option prevent this. In fact _L_i_n_u_x_c_o_n_f do not
- stay alive but simply gives control to ppppppdd and use the --ddeettaacchh
- option.
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- The ----ffoorree option is normally used for a permanent link controlled by
- the iinniitt daemon. A line such as
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- i1:5:respawn:/bin/netconf --connect site --fore
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- in the /etc/inittab file is all is needed to keep alive a permanent
- link. _L_i_n_u_x_c_o_n_f should manage this transparently one day using a
- single checkbox (permanent link ?) in the configuration dialog.
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- netconf --disconnect config
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- will terminate the connection.
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