Differences between version 7 and predecessor to the previous major change of AlcatelSpeedTouch.
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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:14:56 am | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Saturday, October 5, 2002 8:50:15 pm | by MattPurvis | Revert |
@@ -6,8 +6,18 @@
pptp ''ip.address.of.your.adsl.modem'' user ''yourADSLusername'' persist
and optionally add the word "debug" to the end of the line to get copious debugging sent to syslog(8) :)
You are now connected to the Internet.
+
+You may prefer to edit /etc/ppp/options, and have something like this in there:
+
+ noipdefault
+ persist
+ maxfail 0
+ name "''yourADSLusername''"
+ noauth
+ defaultroute
+
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Some problems and solutions.
@@ -29,11 +39,11 @@
!The ADSL line still gets dropped regularly
put something like this in cron(8) to restart adsl if it dies:
killall -0 pptp || /etc/init.d/pptp start
-where /etc/init.d/pptp is a script that starts pptp
(8).
+where /etc/init.d/pptp is a script that starts pppd
(8).
!The web interface won't let me remove an IP address
The web interface is smart enough not to let you remove an IP address you are already connected to. Add a new IP, connect to that IP, remove the old one.
!The pptp docs say I need [MPPE] (or something), whats up with that?
-[MPPE] (or whatever it is) is required to encrypt packets over the tunnel. You probably don't care about encrypting packets over the pptp connection to the modem, so you don't care about [MPPE], you won't need to upgrade your kernel, you won't need to upgrade your ppp
(8) daemon.
+[MPPE] (or whatever it is) is required to encrypt packets over the tunnel. You probably don't care about encrypting packets over the pptp connection to the modem, so you don't care about [MPPE], you won't need to upgrade your kernel, you won't need to upgrade your pppd
(8) daemon.
