ChorusOS 5.0 System Administrator's Guide

Starting and Stopping PPP

Once properly configured, PPP starts automatically at boot time.

Starting PPP on the Host
  1. Become superuser:


    host% su
    Password: root password
    

  2. Start PPP:


    # /init.d/asppp start
    

  3. Make sure PPP started successfully:


    # netstat -i
    Name Mtu Net Dest Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Collis Queue
    lo0 8232 loopback localhost 1386 0 1386 0 0 0
    hme0 1500 host_name host_name 93612 1714 73065 0 860 0
    ipdptp0 8232 target_PPP host_PPP 0 0 0 0 0 0
    # tail /etc/log/asppp.log
    12:31:34 Link manager (2099) started 11/27/99
    12:31:34 parse_config_file: Successful configuration
    12:31:40 000531 ipdptp0 SEND PPP ASYNC 29 Octets LCP Config-Req ID=6b LEN=24
    MRU=1500 ACCM=000a0000 MAG#=cdf1e77f ProtFCOMP AddrCCOMP

Stopping PPP on the Host
  1. Become superuser:


    host% su
    Password: root password
    

  2. Stop PPP:


    # /etc/init.d/assppp stop