Networking Guide
Chapter 9, Configuring the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

Configuring PPP

Configuring PPP

You can use the Network Configuration Manager or its counterpart, the PPP Manager, to perform most PPP configuration tasks.

If your system is not already configured to use PPP, see ``Adding the PPP protocol stack'' for details of how to add the PPP stack to your system. This relinks the kernel. You do not need to shut down and reboot your system at this stage if you want to configure support for additional serial ports on a serial card that you have added to your system. You may, for example, want to connect several modems to the additional ports to allow multiple dialup or remote access connections.

If you want to add one or more PPP endpoint configurations, see ``Adding a PPP link endpoint'' for details. You have the opportunity to configure one or more modems when you add the first automatic dialup, manual dialup, or remote access endpoint configuration to your system. You can choose to configure modems and their serial ports at a later time using the Modem Manager as described in Chapter 23, ``Adding modems'' in the SCO OpenServer Handbook. This allows you to detect modems automatically or to define them manually.


NOTE: You will not be able to make a connection over PPP until you have linked the PPP stack and the device drivers for any additional serial ports into the kernel, and you have shut down and rebooted the system.

You can start the Network Configuration Manager in any of the following ways:

After you have installed the PPP stack with the Network Configuration Manager, you can use the PPP Manager to add, modify, or remove endpoint configurations and perform advanced PPP configuration without having to run the Network Configuration Manager.

You can start the PPP Manager in any of the following ways:

By default, you configure the local host using the PPP Manager. To configure a remote host, for example another machine on a local network, select Open Host from the Host menu, and choose another host.

The PPP Manager's top level screen is shown here: