Configuring an endpoint for automatic or manual dialup
In these types of outgoing link endpoints, the remote host can set one or
both of the IP addresses used at both ends of the link.
The following information is needed to configure an endpoint:
Select Simple login script if the remote system expects you to authenticate yourself using a login name and password. To edit the login script (also known as a chat script), click on Edit script. On the Edit Login Script screen, replace the identifiers $LOGIN and $PASSWORD in the displayed list of Send strings with your login name and password.
To add a pair of Expect and Send strings:
For more information about creating login scripts see ``Adding entries for remote sites to the Systems file'' in the System Administration Guide.
Select one of CHAP or PAP if the remote system uses the Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) or the Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) to authenticate your system:
You can also change the time period in minutes within which the authentication must be performed. The default value is one minute.
If a host name is entered, it is saved in /etc/ppphosts rather than the corresponding IP address. The name must be resolvable using DNS or an entry in the /etc/hosts file without the link being present.
Leave this field blank or set it to ``0.0.0.0'' if the remote system will assign the local IP address.
You can change how IP addresses are negotiated using the IP advanced options. See ``Configuring IP parameters'' for details.
If a host name is entered, it is saved in /etc/ppphosts rather than the corresponding IP address. The name must be resolvable using DNS or an entry in the /etc/hosts file.
Leave this field blank or set it to ``0.0.0.0'' if the remote system will assign the remote IP address.
You can change how IP addresses are negotiated using the IP advanced options. See ``Configuring IP parameters'' for details.
A unique name for the endpoint configuration that can be used with the pppattach(ADMN) command to establish a link.
See ``Example entry for automatic dialup'' and ``Example entry for manual dialup'' for example entries in the /etc/ppphosts file for these types of configuration.
See
``How UUCP is configured for outgoing dialup''
for more information about how links established from
automatic and manual dialup endpoints use UUCP
to make outgoing connections.