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>Chapter 9. Overview of what has to be done to get PPP working as a client</A
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>9.1. <A
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>Obtaining/Installing the software</A
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>This document contains a great deal of information - and with each
version it grows!</P
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>As a consequence, this section aims to provide a concise overview of the
actions you will need to take to get your Linux system connected as a
client to a PPP server.</P
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>If your Linux distribution does not include the PPP software, you will
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>Select the latest possible version(2.4.0 at the time of this writing.)</P
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>The PPP package contains instructions on how to compile and install the
software <I
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