3. Aim of this Document

This document attempts to assist 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 cover reconfiguring/recompiling your kernel to include PPP support).

Whilst DIP (the standard way of creating a SLIP connection) can be used to forge a PPP connection, DIP scripts are generally quite complex. For this reason, this document does NOT cover using DIP to forge a PPP connection.

Instead, this document describes the standard Linux PPP software (chat/pppd).

This document at present does NOT cover :-

• Connecting and configuring a modem to Linux (in detail)
  See the Serial-HOWTO
• Setting up a PPP server on Linux
  A PPP server HOWTO is in production and will be added to this document when ready for release.
• Using DIP to make PPP connections
  Use chat instead...
• Using PAP and CHAP to authenticate PPP connections
  This will be added at a later date.
• Using socks or IP Masquerade
  There are perfectly good documents already covering these two packages.