<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Aims of this Document</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="IP Numbers" HREF="c112.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Linking two LANs or a LAN to the Internet using PPP" HREF="x150.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="c112.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x150.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN143" >Chapter 4. Aims of this Document</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >4.1. <A HREF="c143.html#AEN145" >Setting up a PPP Client</A ></DT ><DT >4.2. <A HREF="x150.html" >Linking two LANs or a LAN to the Internet using PPP</A ></DT ><DT >4.3. <A HREF="x153.html" >Using intuitive configuration tools to set up PPP</A ></DT ><DT >4.4. <A HREF="x156.html" >Setting up a PPP server</A ></DT ><DT >4.5. <A HREF="x161.html" >Using PPP over a direct null modem connection</A ></DT ><DT >4.6. <A HREF="x164.html" >This document at present does NOT cover...</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN145" >4.1. Setting up a PPP Client</A ></H1 ><P >This document provides guidance to people who wish to use Linux and PPP to dial into a PPP server and set up an IP connection using PPP. It assumes that PPP has been compiled and installed on your Linux machine (but does briefly cover reconfiguring/recompiling your kernel to include PPP support).</P ><P >Whilst DIP (the standard way of creating a SLIP connection) can be used to set up a PPP connection, DIP scripts are generally quite complex. For this reason, this document does NOT cover using DIP to set up a PPP connection.</P ><P >Instead, this document describes the standard Linux PPP software (chat/pppd).</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="c112.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="x150.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >IP Numbers</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Linking two LANs or a LAN to the Internet using PPP</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >