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Re: Start and stop Network interfaces.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Oct 26 13:28:28 1998

Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:06:07 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Run control-pannel if it is not running already.
>From there, run linuxconf (the concertmistress icon).

Click PPP.   Depress PAP. Enter your info.
Then type
         /sbin/ifup ppp0
and it will connect, maybe even on the
first try.



Matthew Schumacher wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have been trying to get a ppp connection to work from the prompt for
> about a week now.  It works fine in X using the network tool in the
> control-panel, but I want to know how to make it work from command
> line.  The ppp server is a windows NT Server at work with a modem on it
> and it has the RAS-Routing patch to make it work just like a pap ppp
> server.  How do I make ppp work from the command line if the server
> wants me to start a ppp session before I authenticate.  Also, if the
> ppp0 interface is already created is there a way I activate/deactivate
> it from the command line?  Does anyone know of a script I could download
> to do this for me?
>
> Thanx
>
> -schu
>
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