pppconfig script

I have a couple of questions about the pppconfig script. After running it
I have a '/etc/ppp/options' file and a '/etc/ppp/peer/erols' file, when I
use 'pon erols' where does pppd look for it's options? In both? What if an
option appears in both?

There are a couple of options in the '/etc/ppp/peer/erols' file that aren't
described in the man pages, can someone clue me in as to how they work?

user
ipparam
usepeerdns


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Joe R <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have a couple of questions about the pppconfig script. After running it
> I have a '/etc/ppp/options' file and a '/etc/ppp/peer/erols' file, when I
> use 'pon erols' where does pppd look for it's options? In both?

Yes.

What if an
> option appears in both?

Never tried that but I suspect it doesn't matter.

> There are a couple of options in the '/etc/ppp/peer/erols' file that aren't
> described in the man pages, can someone clue me in as to how they work?

Huh? The answers below are in the man pages, pppd versions 2.4.1 and
2.4.2. The user option has been around a looong time.

> user

user name
Sets the name used for authenticating the local
system to the peer to name.
> ipparam

ipparam string
Provides an extra parameter to the ip-up and ip-
down scripts. If this option is given, the string
supplied is given as the 6th parameter to those
scripts.

> usepeerdns

usepeerdns
Ask the peer for up to 2 DNS server addresses. The
addresses supplied by the peer (if any) are passed
to the /etc/ppp/ip-up script in the environment
variables DNS1 and DNS2, and the environment vari-
able USEPEERDNS will be set to 1. In addition,
pppd will create an /etc/ppp/resolv.conf file con-
taining one or two nameserver lines with the
address(es) supplied by the peer.

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On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:05:11 -0600, Clifford Kite wrote:
>
>> There are a couple of options in the '/etc/ppp/peer/erols' file that aren't
>> described in the man pages, can someone clue me in as to how they work?
>
> Huh? The answers below are in the man pages, pppd versions 2.4.1 and
> 2.4.2. The user option has been around a looong time.
>
Yep they're there're alright, I must be going blind. I just put Mandrake
on my laptop so hopefully I'll get somewhere with that pcmcia modem.

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Joe

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