<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Setting up a PPP server</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.52"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux PPP HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Aims of this Document" HREF="c143.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Using intuitive configuration tools to set up PPP" HREF="x153.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Using PPP over a direct null modem connection" HREF="x161.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" 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="x153.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 4. Aims of this Document</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x161.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN156" >4.4. Setting up a PPP server</A ></H1 ><P >This document provides guidance on how to configure your Linux PC as a PPP server (allowing other people to dial into your Linux PC and establish a PPP connection).</P ><P >You should note that there are a myriad of ways of setting up Linux as a PPP server. This document gives one method - that used by the author to set up several small PPP servers (each of 16 modems).</P ><P >This method is known to work well. However, it is not necessarily the best method.</P ></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="x153.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="x161.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Using intuitive configuration tools to set up PPP</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c143.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Using PPP over a direct null modem connection</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >