<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Automating your connections - Creating the connection scripts</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.52"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux PPP HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Setting up the PPP connection manually" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="The ppp-on script" HREF="x1188.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" ><A HREF="http://www.linuxports.com/howto/ppp" TARGET="_top" >Linux PPP HOWTO</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x1188.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="AUTOMATE" >Chapter 18. Automating your connections - Creating the connection scripts</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >18.1. <A HREF="automate.html#AEN1173" >Connection scripts for User name/Password Authentication</A ></DT ><DT >18.2. <A HREF="x1188.html" >The ppp-on script</A ></DT ><DT >18.3. <A HREF="x1200.html" >Editing the supplied PPP startup scripts</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >18.3.1. <A HREF="x1200.html#AEN1203" >The ppp-on script</A ></DT ><DT >18.3.2. <A HREF="x1200.html#AEN1214" >The ppp-on-dialer script</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >18.4. <A HREF="x1219.html" >What a Chat script means...</A ></DT ><DT >18.5. <A HREF="x1285.html" >A chat script for PAP/CHAP authenticated connections</A ></DT ><DT >18.6. <A HREF="x1290.html" >The pppd <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >debug</TT > and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >file option_file</TT > options</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><P >Whilst you can continue to log in by hand as shown above, it is much neater to set up some scripts to do this automatically for you.</P ><P >A set of scripts automates the log in and PPP start up so all you have to do (as root or as a member of the PPP group) is issue a single command to fire up your connection.</P ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1173" >18.1. Connection scripts for User name/Password Authentication</A ></H1 ><P >If your ISP does NOT require the use of PAP/CHAP, these are the scripts for you!</P ><P >If the ppp package installed correctly, you should have two example files. For PPP 2.1.2 they are in <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >/usr/sbin</TT > and for PPP 2.2 they are in <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >/etc/ppp/scripts</TT >. They are called</P ><P >for PPP-2.1.2</P ><P > <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >ppp-on ppp-off</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P >and for PPP-2.2</P ><P > <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >ppp-off ppp-on ppp-on-dialer</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P >Now, if you are using PPP 2.1.2, I strongly urge you to delete the sample files. There are potential problems with these - and don't tell me they work fine - I used them for ages too (and recommended them in the first version of this HOWTO)!</P ><P >For the benefit of PPP 2.1.2 users, here are BETTER template versions, taken from the PPP 2.2 distribution. I suggest you copy and use these scripts <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >instead of</I > the old PPP-2.1.2 scripts. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x1188.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Setting up the PPP connection manually</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >The ppp-on script</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >