This document provides guidance to people who wish to use Linux and PPP to dial into a PPP server and set up an IP connection using PPP. It assumes that PPP has been compiled and installed on your Linux machine (but does briefly cover reconfiguring/recompiling your kernel to include PPP support).
Whilst DIP (the standard way of creating a SLIP connection) can be used to forge a PPP connection, DIP scripts are generally quite complex. For this reason, this document does NOT cover using DIP to forge a PPP connection.
Instead, this document describes the standard Linux PPP software (chat/pppd).
This document provides guidance on how to configure your Linux PC as a PPP server (allowing other people to dial into your Linux PC and establish a PPP connection).
You should note that there are a myriad of ways of setting up Linux as a PPP server. This document (currently) gives one method - that used by the author to set up several small PPP server (each of 16 modems).
This method is known to work well. However, it is not necessarily the best method. If other users have particularly clever PPP server setups, please feel free to email information on them to the author of this HOWTO.
This document provides (basic) information on linking two LANs or a LAN to the Internet using PPP.