pppconfig is an interactive, menu driven utility to help automate setting
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up a dial up ppp connection. It currently supports PAP, CHAP, and chat
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authentication. It uses the standard pppd configuration files. It does
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not make a connection to your isp, it just configures your system so that
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you can do so with a utility such as pon. It can detect your modem, and
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it can configure ppp for dynamic dns, multiple ISP's and demand dialing.
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Before running pppconfig you should know what sort of authentication your
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isp requires, the username and password that they want you to use, and the
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phone number. If they require you to use chat authentication, you will
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also need to know the login and password prompts and any other prompts and
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responses required for login. If you can't get this information from your
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isp you could try dialing in with minicom and working through the procedure
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until you get the garbage that indicates that ppp has started on the other
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end.
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Since pppconfig makes changes in system configuration files, you must be
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logged in as root or use sudo to run it.