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Re: ppp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Khalid S. Al-Khater)
Wed Nov 6 03:44:52 1996
From: "Khalid S. Al-Khater" <kskhater@qatar.net.qa>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <mtschlou@cloudnet.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 11:41:35 +0300
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What do you do when you get the scrabble chars (garbage) I need to type =
ppp at ISP-HOST>
to start ppp . Then I get the garbage. (in Windows95 you just press =
continue at the terminal screen).
What do you do to know that you're connected?
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> From: Mark Schlough <mtschlou@cloudnet.com>
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: ppp
> Date: Wednesday, November 06, 1996 5:58 AM
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> Howdy,
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> I was in your shoes just a few weeks ago, believe meI can identify...
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> If you are running RedHat 4.0 then you can do a find for ppp-on with
> find / -name "ppp-on" -print
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> you should find a directory with ppp-on and ppp-on-dialer in it
> [on my machine it is /usr/doc/ppp-2.2.0f-2/scripts/]
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> I copied these files to my /usr/local/bin directory
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> I then edited the ppp-on script=20
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> I changed the username and password to the appropriate values
> like this:
> =20
> ACCOUNT=3DPusername
> PASSWORD=3Dpassword
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> I also changed the line for the DIALER_SCRIPT to:=20
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> DIALER_SCRIPT=3D/usr/local/bin/ppp-on-dialer
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> I was then able to type ppp-on and the script did the rest
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> BE SURE THAT YOU have your /etc/resolv.conf setup or it wont find your =
ISP
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> mine looks like this
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> search cloudnet.com
> nameserver 199.199.220.2
> nameserver 199.199.220.5
> nameserver 199.199.220.10
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> That should be it...
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> Hope this helps !!!=20
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> Cheers,
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> Mark=20
> mtschlou@cloudnet.com
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> On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Brian Schneider wrote:
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> > I am new to this list and have what I hope is a silly question. =20
> > I want to get ppp working but I have to do more than just log in. =
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> > there a way to do a manual login or use a script to supply the added =
> > login information. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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