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B<pppconfig> allows you to configure connections to multiple providers. For example, you might call your isp 'provider', your employer 'theoffice' and your university 'theschool'. Then you can connect to your isp with 'pon', your office with 'pon theoffice', and your university with 'pon theschool'.

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It can determine which serial port your modem is on, but the serial port must already be configured. This is normally done when installing Linux.

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It can help you set your nameservers, or, if your ISP uses 'dynamic DNS', it can set up ppp to use that.

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It can configure ppp for demand dialing, so that your ppp connection will come up automatically. It will not, however, start pppd for you. You must still start pppd yourself ('pon' will do it). Pppd will then wait in the background for you to attempt to access the Net and bring up the link.

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If you select "Static" in the "Configure Nameservers" screen pppconfig will create a file in the /etc/ppp/resolv directory named after the provider you are configuring and containing "nameserver" lines for each of the IP numbers you gave. This file will be substituted for /etc/resolv.conf when the connection comes up. The provider name is passed in the ipparam variable so that 0dns-up knows which file to use. The original resolv.conf will be put back when the connection goes down. You can edit this file if you wish and add such things as "search" or "domain" directives or additional nameservers. Be sure and read the resolv.conf man page first, though. The "search" and "domain" directives probably do not do what you think they do.

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If you select "dynamic" in the "Configure Nameservers" screen pppconfig will configure pppd for 'dynamic DNS' and create a file in the /etc/ppp/resolv directory named after the provider you are configuring but containing nothing. When the connection comes up the nameservers supplied by your ISP will be added and the file substituted for /etc/resolv.conf. You can edit this file if you wish and add such things as "search" or "domain" directives or additional nameservers.

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If you select "None" in the "Configure Nameservers" screen pppconfig will create no file in /etc/ppp/resolv and will leave /etc/resolv.conf alone. ipparam is not set to the provider name and so is free for the administrator to use.

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B</etc/ppp/peers/provider> is the standard pppd options file for the default service provider.

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B</etc/ppp/peers/E<lt>nameE<gt>> is the pppd options file for the provider that you have named E<lt>nameE<gt>.