Linux PPP Setup

Ray DeJean says.....

Hello all, I've spent some time writing a little program to alleviate the woes of Neosoft Linux users. It is a fully self-contained perl script that will configure a linux system for pap ppp (hopefully) in a matter of seconds! I've tested it on Redhat 4.2 with Perl5, on the Northshore LA terminal server, and it works great! .......People with Slackware or Debian machines, and New orleans and Houston users. If you're brave (ie desperate), try it on your machine!

It does make complete backups of everything. If you're not so brave, i invite you all to peruse the code and send me any errors, bugs, comments, etc etc.

Thanks, Ray DeJean ray@cs.selu.edu , rdejean@neosoft.com and http://cs.selu.edu/~ray......
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I have tried his setup script on a home Linux box running Slackware 3.3 on a 386sx with 6meg of ram and found it very easy to setup a PPP conection to Neosoft.. It was easier than the Windows95 setup.. I ran it, then ppp-on and was able to use telnet, ftp and Lynx to web surf. It was that easy....
For more info on your connection, you can use the netstat -i to see if the link is active, tail -f /var/log/messages and finally ppp-off to kill the connection...

You do need to have Perl installed, PPP configured in you kernel, modem installed and a web browser like Lynx (nongraphical) or use X-windows and download Netscape..

Click here to download Ray DeJean's Linux PPP Setup Script.....
or for the newer version that checks for your modem Linux PPP Setup Script v2-27-98....

To run the setup, you need to be root. I started the setup with # /usr/bin/perl linux_ppp_setup......
or # /usr/bin/perl linux_ppp_setup2

david decker March 2, 1998