Dialup configuration

Dialup configuration

pppconfig

Advantages

• reliable
• easy to configure for someone familiar with command line
• can be used by normal user

Disadvantages

• requires root to create new connection and to debug
• not obvious to someone used to a gui interface

Configuration

• open a terminal, become root, type pppconfig
• Use the defaults for most things

Use

• to start a connection, type "pon"
• to close a connection, type "poff"
• to debug (as root) type "plog". this shows the tail of the ppp log.
• to tell if you are connected type "netstat -nr" and look for the ppp0 interface.

kppp

Advantages

• Graphical windows-like
• Easy to configure, defaults mostly good
• Easy to get ATI command responses

Disadvantages

• Very flaky, fails to work at reasonable speed on good modems
• buggy