Sample PPP Configuration

This and the following sections show you how to edit the appropriate files to support the most common PPP configuration: remote hosts and their dial-in server. Figure 23-1 illustrates the configuration used as the example for this chapter. It depicts three remote machines (nomada, nomadb, nomadc) and their dial-in server nubian, which compose the network 192.41.43. This is a separate network from the local area network 192.41.40, to which the dial-in server nubian is directly attached. Network 192.41.40 runs NIS as its name service.

The IP number shown for each remote host is the address of its PPP network interface. However, the dial-in server has a specially created IP address for the PPP interface, 192.41.43.10, in addition to the IP address for its primary network interface, 192.41.40.45.

Figure 23-1 Sample Network of Remote Hosts and Multipoint Dial-In Server