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>Checking for PPP Support</TITLE
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>4. Checking for PPP Support</H1
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>Although PPP support is provided in almost all Linux distributions but it is still
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better to check whether it is present on your system. You can use <B
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>checkconfig</B
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> or, better
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still, look into the <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>/usr/sbin</TT
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> directory and locate PPP binaries with the command</P
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><P
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><B
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>ls <TT
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>-al</TT
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> <TT
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><I
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>ppp*</I
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> </P
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>If you get a listing like this:</P
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> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3438 2005-05-28 14:56 ppp-go*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 1787 2004-02-26 21:36 ppp-off*
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-05-28 14:17 ppp-on -> ppp-go*
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-05-28 14:17 ppp-stop -> ppp-off*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 346812 2004-02-26 21:36 pppd*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 37916 2004-02-26 21:36 pppdump*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 25936 2003-03-02 22:05 pppoe*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 22308 2003-03-02 22:05 pppoe-relay*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 35084 2003-03-02 22:05 pppoe-server*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 12028 2003-03-02 22:05 pppoe-sniff*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 58527 2004-02-26 21:36 pppsetup*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 9192 2004-02-26 21:36 pppstats*
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</PRE
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></FONT
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><P
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>then PPP support is definitely present.</P
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><P
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>Similarly, look into <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>/etc/ppp</TT
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> directory, which contains the PPP options file
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and some other files configuring PPP:
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> -rw------- 1 root root 78 2004-02-26 21:36 chap-secrets
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-rw------- 1 root root 1625 2005-05-28 14:35 connect-errors
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 938 2003-03-02 22:04 firewall-masq
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 836 2003-03-02 22:04 firewall-standalone
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1208 2005-05-28 14:56 ip-down*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1208 2005-05-28 14:29 ip-down.OLD*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1945 2005-05-28 14:56 ip-up*
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1945 2005-05-28 14:29 ip-up.OLD*
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-rw------- 1 root root 541 2005-05-28 14:58 options
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-rw------- 1 root root 656 2005-05-28 14:56 options.demand
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9975 2005-05-28 11:21 options.old
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-rw------- 1 root root 216 2005-05-28 14:56 pap-secrets
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2003-03-02 22:05 plugins/
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104 2003-03-02 22:04 pppoe-server-options
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4562 2003-03-02 22:04 pppoe.conf
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-rw------- 1 root root 129 2005-05-28 15:12 pppscript
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-rw------- 1 root root 8941 2005-05-28 14:56 pppsetup.txt
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</PRE
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>For the sake of safety do copy your original options file to a file <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>options.old</TT
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so that you can revert back to your original setup should you have troubles.</P
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>See <A
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HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/kernel-configuration.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>the PPP HOWTO Chapter 10</A
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> for more information on PPP support in the Linux kernel.</P
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