<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SLIP/PPP Emulator mini-HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.60"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="intro.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" >SLIP/PPP Emulator mini-HOWTO</A ></H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Irish</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" >irish@eskimo.com </P ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="OTHERCREDIT" ><B >Glen Reesor - </B ><SPAN CLASS="CONTRIB" > Converted document from HTML to DocBook v4.1 (SGML) </SPAN ></P ><P CLASS="PUBDATE" >2001-02-21<BR></P ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 3.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >21 February 2001</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: GCR</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 3.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >7 August 1997</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: Irish</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN23" ></A ><P ></P ><P > This document will describe how to get your Linux box to connect to a generic site via a SLIP/PPP emulator, such as SLiRP or TIA. I take no responsibility for your use of this information, but corrections are welcome. </P ><P > I will not attempt to describe all that can be done over this connection once established, but I will refer you to other documents or sites that will contain the relevant information. </P ><P > That done, let's do it! </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="intro.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="intro.html#COPYRIGHT" >Copyright Information</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="intro.html#DISCLAIMER" >Disclaimer</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="intro.html#NEWVERSIONS" >New Versions</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="intro.html#FEEDBACK" >Feedback</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="how-does-it-work.html" >How Does an Emulator Work?</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="how-does-it-work.html#WHAT-IS-TIA" >What is TIA?</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="how-does-it-work.html#WHAT-IS-SLIRP" >What is SLiRP?</A ></DT ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="how-does-it-work.html#WHAT-ABOUT-TERM" >What about Term?</A ></DT ><DT >2.4. <A HREF="how-does-it-work.html#WHAT-ABOUT-REAL-SLIP" >What about real SLIP/PPP?</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="prerequisites.html" >Prerequisites</A ></DT ><DT >4. <A HREF="preparing-your-machine.html" >Preparing your Linux Machine</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.1. <A HREF="preparing-your-machine.html#COMPILING-YOUR-KERNEL" >Compiling your Kernel</A ></DT ><DT >4.2. <A HREF="preparing-your-machine.html#EDIT-SOME-FILES" >Edit some files in <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc</TT ></A ></DT ><DT >4.3. <A HREF="preparing-your-machine.html#DIP" >DIP</A ></DT ><DT >4.4. <A HREF="preparing-your-machine.html#PPP" >PPP</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >5. <A HREF="now-what.html" >Now What?</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >5.1. <A HREF="now-what.html#MAIL" >Mail</A ></DT ><DT >5.2. <A HREF="now-what.html#NEWS" >News</A ></DT ><DT >5.3. <A HREF="now-what.html#MOSAIC-NETSCAPE" >Mosaic/Netscape</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >6. <A HREF="miscellaneous.html" >Miscellaneous</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >6.1. <A HREF="miscellaneous.html#REFERENCES" >References</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></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" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="intro.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >