<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Introduction</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Leased line Mini HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Leased line Mini HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Modem" HREF="modem.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Leased line Mini HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="modem.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="intro" ></A >1. Introduction</H1 ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="copyright" ></A >1.1. Copyright and License</H2 ><P > This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. You should have received a copy along with it. If not, it is available from <A HREF="http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html" TARGET="_top" >http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html</A > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="whatis" ></A >1.2. What is a leased line</H2 ><P > Any fixed, that is permanent, point to point data communications link, which is leased from a telco or similar organisation. The leased line involves cables, such as twisted pair, coax or fiber optic, and may involve all sorts of other hardware such as (pupin) coils, transformers, amplifiers and regenerators. <P ></P ><DIV CLASS="variablelist" ><DL ><DT >This document deals with:</DT ><DD ><P > Configuring your modem and pppd to use a 2 wire twisted pair leased line. </P ></DD ><DT >This document does <EM >NOT</EM > deal with:</DT ><DD ><P > SLIP, getting or installing pppd, synchronous data communication, baseband modems, xDSL. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="assumptions" ></A >1.3. Assumptions</H2 ><P > You should already have a working pppd on your system. You also need Minicom or a similar program to configure your modems. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="modem.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Leased line Mini HOWTO</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Modem</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >