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generic fioricet ISP-Connectivity-mini-HOWTO Michael Strates, mstrates@croftj.ne generic fioricet v2.0.1, 2001-11-28 This document describes how to setup PPP, generic fioricet onnect up to your ISP, con figure mail and news, get a permane generic fioricet t IP (if available), get a domain name, and have a bonda fide s generic fioricet stem running in a little over thirty minutes. Archived Documen generic fioricet Notice: This document has been archived by the LDP because it generic fioricet oes not apply to modern Linux systems. It is no longer being ac generic fioricet ively maintained. _____________________________________________ generic fioricet ________________________ Table of Contents 1. Introduction generic fioricet 1.1 New versions of this document 1.2 Feedback 1.3 Stand generic fioricet rd Disclaimer 1.4 Copyright Information 2. Connecting to th generic fioricet Outside World 2.1 Talking and Communicating with pppd and c generic fioricet at 2.2 IP's, Domain Names and Subnets 3. Electronic Mail on generic fioricet your Linux Box ________________________________________________ generic fioricet _____________________ 1. Introduction The main goal of this d generic fioricet cument obviously is to make the new user friendly with the many generic fioricet terms of connecting your Linux PC up to the Internet, obtaining generic fioricet IP addresses, domain names, and setting things up. This guide i generic fioricet intended for the intermediate user in mind, although intellige generic fioricet t newbies shouldn't have any problems. 1.1. New versions of th generic fioricet s document New versions of this document will be periodically p generic fioricet sted to comp.os.linux.answers. They will also be added to the generic fioricet arious anonymous FTP sites who archive such information, includ generic fioricet ng: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO In addition, yo generic fioricet should generally be able to find this document on the Linux Do generic fioricet umentation Project page via: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/ 1.2. generic fioricet Feedback I certaintly welcome any feedback about this HOWTO, sp generic fioricet lling mistakes, how it all worked out, thankyou notes and criti generic fioricet isms. I hope I helped a few people with this HOWTO, and if I di generic fioricet , I'd be really happy to hear from you. mstrates@croftj.net h generic fioricet tp://linloft.home.ml.org/ 1.3. Standard Disclaimer No liabili generic fioricet y for the contents of this documents can be accepted. Use the generic fioricet oncepts, examples and other content at your own risk. As this i generic fioricet a new edition of this document, there may be errors and inaccu generic fioricet acies, that may of course be damaging to your system. Proceed generic fioricet ith caution, and although this is highly unlikely, I don't take generic fioricet any responsibility for that. Naturally, there are probably bet generic fioricet er and easier ways to do things in this document. There will al generic fioricet ays be another way in the Linux World. This is the way I've don generic fioricet things, and that's the way I'll be presenting them in this HOW generic fioricet O. 1.4. Copyright Information This document is copyrighted (c generic fioricet 1997 Michael Strates and distributed under the terms of the GNU generic fioricet Free Documentation License, which can be obtained from http://w generic fioricet w.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html. 2. Connecting to the Outside Worl generic fioricet In this document, we'll explain how to do this using PPP (Poin generic fioricet to Point Protocol), a popular protocol nearly always used over generic fioricet the Internet. It allows your modem to speak to the outside worl generic fioricet . This is what applications like Trumpet Winsock in Windows 3.x generic fioricet did, and many other programs that you've probably have never se generic fioricet n. In Linux, we use a thing called chat to do the dialing up to the ISP and then use a utility called pppd to 'use' the connection. In a sense, chat is your dialer, and pppd is your protocol. We'll describe how to setup both below. 2.1. Talking and Communicating with pppd and chat Probably the easiest way to go about things is to make a shell script in root's home directory called ppp-connect and involke the script whenever you wish to make your connection. We'll discuss this method. Open up your favourite editor as root on /ppp-connect. You'll then have to decide on your parameters. pppd connect 'chat -v "" "your_init_string" "" ATDTisp_number CONNECT "" ogin: your_username word: your_passwd' /dev/tty(0/1/2) speed modem pppd involkes /usr/sbin/pppd on my system, then loads up chat to do the dialing. Chat sends your_init_string to the modem, then dials isp_number. It then waits for CONNECT, then waits for ogin: (l removed
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