[LBo] Week 31: Chapter 41 Point-to-Point Protocol -- Dialup Networking

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Week 31: Chapter 41 Point-to-Point Protocol -- Dialup Networking

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This week we have one of those oldies and maybe not-so-goodies.  Probably nobody needs to go through all of this to get dialup working these days.  There are easy configuration tools like pppconfig on Debian, pppsetup on Slackware (pppconfig and pppsetup may be on other distros, no doubt), wvdial, KPPP a front end for pppd on KDE, and Gnome-PPP which runs wvdial.

This lesson speaks of the 'dip' command which seems to last be mentioned and updated in 2000.  You may see dip as an entry in /etc/group.  There is a short discussion on being a member of the dip group for using KPPP in Debian. 

For firewall Rute shows ipfwadm and speaks of the 'newer' ipchains. Today's model is iptables with nice front ends like firestarter.  Some still like to build their own iptables by hand.  I don't blame them, because then they know exactly what is going on in their firewall.  Some others of us, just are too network-challenged to do our firewall without a simplified front end. :-)  

Look over http://rute.2038bug.com/node44.html.gz especially noting Section 41.1.3: Running pppd.  

Take a peek at my favorite ppp page "How to hook up PPP" by William Unruh,  http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html.  It was last modified in 2002 which is after the last time I used it.  :-)  It's a great page for learning all about it and for troubleshooting if it isn't working for some reason.