Translations by Omer Zak

Selecting YES will enable debugging. Selecting NO will disable it. %s

Debug Command

Selecting YES will enable demand dialing for this provider. Selecting NO will disable it. Note that you will still need to start pppd with pon: pppconfig will not do that for you. When you do so, pppd will go into the background and wait for you to attempt to access something on the Net, and then dial up the ISP. If you do enable demand dialing you will also want to set an idle-timeout so that the link will go down when it is idle. Demand dialing is presently %s.

Demand Command

Selecting YES will enable persist mode. Selecting NO will disable it. This will cause pppd to keep trying until it connects and to try to reconnect if the connection goes down. Persist is incompatible with demand dialing: enabling demand will disable persist. Persist is presently %s.

Persist Command

Choose a method. 'Static' means that the same nameservers will be used every time this provider is used. You will be asked for the nameserver numbers in the next screen. 'Dynamic' means that pppd will automatically get the nameserver numbers each time you connect to this provider. 'None' means that DNS will be handled by other means, such as BIND (named) or manual editing of /etc/resolv.conf. Select 'None' if you do not want /etc/resolv.conf to be changed when you connect to this provider. Use the up and down arrow keys to move among the selections, and press the spacebar to select one. When you are finished, use TAB to select <OK> and ENTER to move on to the next item.

Enter the IP number for your primary nameserver.

Enter the IP number for your secondary nameserver (if any).

Enter the username of a user who you want to be able to start and stop ppp. She will be able to start any connection. To remove a user run the program vigr and remove the user from the dip group.

No such user as %s.

You probably don't want to change this. Pppd uses the remotename as well as the username to find the right password in the secrets file. The default remotename is the provider name. This allows you to use the same username with different providers. To disable the remotename option give a blank remotename. The remotename option will be omitted from the provider file and a line with a * instead of a remotename will be put in the secrets file.

If you want this PPP link to shut down automatically when it has been idle for a certain number of seconds, put that number here. Leave this blank if you want no idle shutdown at all.

Idle Timeout

Couldn't open %s.

Usage: pppconfig [--version] | [--help] | [[--dialog] | [--whiptail] | [--gdialog] [--noname] | [providername]] '--version' prints the version. '--help' prints a help message. '--dialog' uses dialog instead of gdialog. '--whiptail' uses whiptail. '--gdialog' uses gdialog. '--noname' forces the provider name to be 'provider'. 'providername' forces the provider name to be 'providername'.

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