On 28 Apr 98 at 14:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I would like to have my RH5 box configured to use PPP in a
> >system-friendly (for RH anyway) way.
> Ah, you want the documentation at
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/sysconfig.html
I have read this documentation, but it leaves a bit unsaid, which was
why I was (and still am) hoping someone would send me suitably
sanitised copies of the files in /etc/ppp/ and
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/.
For example, my ISP uses CHAP after a scripted login. I have a
suitable chap-secrets file and also have a suitable chat script.
These are currently setup as per the ppp-howto (i.e. pretty much the
whole lot in /etc/ppp) which is not how RH does it.
Working from the above URL I presume I will need a file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 that looks something like
this:
-----8<-----
DEVICE=ppp0
IPADDR=[static ip of my ppp connection]
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=[ip of my isp's terminal server but with .0 at the end]
BROADCAST=[ip of my isp's terminal server but with .255 at the end]
GATEWAY=[ip of my isp's terminal server?]
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=no
BOOTPROTO=none
PERSIST=yes
MODEMPORT=/dev/ttys0
LINESPEED=115200
DEFABORT=yes
DEFROUTE=yes
ESCAPECHARS=yes
HARDFLOWCTL=yes
PPPOPTIONS=
PAPNAME=
REMIP=[ip of my isp's terminal server]
MTU=
MRU=
DISCONNECTTIMEOUT=5
RETRYTIMEOUT=60
-----8<-----
So, stuff left unsaid... if I want an option set by pppd do I leave
the option out of this config or give it some sort of default value
(like 0.0.0.0 for remote ip)?
Are my assumptions about IP addresses above correct?
Should this interface be set to 'no' for ONBOOT and USERCTL? If set
to 'yes' for ONBOOT will that initiate a dialup during boot?
What PPPOPTIONS are suitable to be added here? My working slackware
copied ppp setup uses the following command line:
/usr/bin/pppd debug crtscts defaultroute lock modem persist \
/dev/ttys0 115200 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 connect \
/etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer
If I choose to use default values for MTU/MRU should I leave blank
entries in my config file or just remove the entries from the config
file completely?
In addition, I need a chat script for the scripted part of my login.
This is currently in my /etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer script and consists of
some thirteen lines. The URL above refers to the chat script in
these terms:
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-
>
> chat script for PPP or SLIP connection intended to establish the
> connection. For SLIP devices, a DIP script is written from the chat
> script; for PPP devices, the chat script is used directly.
from which I assume that I will need a
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 to contain my chat script
but I have no idea of the accepted format. Is it in the same form as
the chat script in my /etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer (which includes the
actual call to /usr/sbin/chat) or is it simply in the form of
expect/send pairs? There's nothing there to tell me how this file
should be laid out.
Lastly, having been through the scripted login my ISP then runs a
CHAP authentication on the connection so I also need a chap-secrets
file. This is currently in /etc/ppp/ and is working. Where does the
chap-secrets file live in a RH5 ppp setup? Should it also be moved
to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts?
In summary, I am assuming that I need the following files:
/etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-ppp0
/etc/sysconfig/chat-ppp0
/etc/ppp/chap-secrets
in order to have a RH5-standard ppp connection working. Is this
correct? Or are there other files that I will also need?
I currently have a working connection but am using:
/etc/ppp/ppp-on
/etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer
/etc/ppp/ppp-off
/etc/ppp/chap-secrets
these files being largely gleaned from my slackware box and various
how-to's relating to ppp.
> It's not in tutorial format, but I'm pretty sure it has everything
> you need to know to set up a PPP interface the way netcfg does.
Subject to the above questions. :)
> The good news is that in the future sometime there will exist a
> text-mode tool capable of setting up network devices using our
> standard /etc/sysconfig way. :-)
Yep, that _IS_ good news. For those of us that choose, for whatever
reason, to not install X it's currently a pain to get things done in
the way that RH5 is doing it. Particularly when the included man
pages don't refer to config files that RH5 is using for stuff as
seems the case with 'man pppd' and the how-to's don't do anything but
tell you how to drive netcfg to do this stuff.
Thanks for your response though, at least I _think_ I'm heading in
the right direction with this stuff.
Cheers, Dave.
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