Re: PPP server installation

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, James Carlson wrote:

> Bill Unruh writes:
> > The key word is
> > mgetty
> > This will answer the phone and start pppd when you have set it up.
>
> Agreed, that's the right way to do it.  It might be faster, though, to
> just set up a copy of pppd running on that port using /etc/inittab.
> Something like:
>
> S0:234:respawn:/usr/bin/pppd 10.0.0.1:10.0.0.2

No if, as I recall he said, he is dialing in to the machine. He needs
something to answer the phone, and pppd is not good at that.
Also, He had better put in the passive option as well, or pppd will
continually send out LCP requests, not get answered for 10 times, die,
be reborn, etc.

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For step by step instructions about setting up ppp under Linux, see
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