Figure 16-2: Configure PPP connections from KDE using (Web server address)
Figure 16-2: Configure PPP connections from KDE using the kppp Configuration window. 1. From the kppp Configuration window (Accounts tab), click New. A pop-up window asks if you want to use the wizard to create a new account. 2. Click Dialog Setup. A New Account window appears. 3. From the Dial tab on the New Account window, add the following information: Connection Name Enter any name you choose to identify the connection. Typically, the name would identify your ISP. Phone Number Click on the Add button, enter the telephone number of the ISP s modem pool, and click on OK. Authentication Determine from your ISP the type of authentication that is used to establish the connection. Many ISPs use a PAP or CHAP type of authentication (which are used with Windows NT and other types of servers), while universities and other sites where UNIX and Linux servers are used tend to use Terminal and Script-based authentication. Customize pppd arguments Click on this button, type an argument you want to add, click on Add, repeat for additional arguments (optional), and click on OK. These arguments are passed to the pppd daemon (which establishes and maintains your PPP connections). Some of these arguments are described later in the section “Checking your PPP connection.” See the pppd manual page (type man pppd) for information on available arguments. 4. Click the IP tab. Chances are that the ISP will use Dynamic IP addresses. If the ISP gave you a Static IP address, click the Static IP Address box and type in the address and netmask the ISP gave you. You can also click on the “Autoconfigure hostname…” box to have your host name automatically assigned from your ISP. 5. Click the DNS tab. This is where you enter your domain name and the IP address for the DNS server (which is used to resolve Internet host/domain names into IP addresses). If DNS servers are not assigned dynamically (which they probably are), you will typically be given two DNS servers to enter (a primary and a backup). 6. Click the Login Script tab. This is a somewhat advanced feature. It can be used if your dial-up ISP connection doesn’t do the standard PAP, CHAP, or terminal login ways of setting up a connection. If that is the case, you can set up a custom “chat” script here that defines what you expect to receive from the remote side and what you will send in response. (When you try your connection a few steps later, you will be able to watch this chat take place.) 7.
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