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<sect1 id="connectivity-ppp-overview">
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    <title>Overview</title>
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    <para>
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        This chapter describes how you can use the Point-to-Point
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        Protocol (PPP) to create collaborative networks in situations
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        where the telephone network is the only medium you and your
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        friends have access to.  With PPP you can prepare a server
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        computer to provide internet services for client computers
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        that use the telephone network as medium for data transmition.
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        The configuration described here can be thought as one client
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        computer that establishes connection to a server computer in
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        order to use the internet services it provides, however, based
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        on this concept, other configuration are also possible to
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        satisfy situations where more than two computers need to be
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        involved.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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        The operating system used by both server and client computers
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        will be &TC;; release 5.5<footnote>
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        <para>
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            Thank to my friend Manual Chavez Manzano (Manny) for
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            finding a way to download this release of &TC;; and bring
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            it to me as a gift when I was completly isolated from
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            Internet without any possibility of downloading it by
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            myself.
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        </para>
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        </footnote>. The configuration described in this book doesn't
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        use third party software. All the software needed in this
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        configuration is available inside &TC;;.  In case you are
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        using a different operating system in your client computer,
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        you'll need to look the appropriate application your operating
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        system provides to establish PPP connections and configure it
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        to establish connection with the server computer described in
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        <xref linkend="connectivity-ppp-server" />.  Generally, the
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        most you need to establish connection with the server computer
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        is a telephone number and the credentials for authentication,
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        if any.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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        In this chapter you'll find how to configure your client
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        computer to dial-up the server computer automatically when
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        client applications (e.g., e-mail clients, web browsers, etc.)
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        request data transmition for the server computer at a moment
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        where no connection has been established with it, yet. Also,
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        this chapter covers different considerations you could take
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        into account to keep the telephone line as free as possible,
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        so different client computers be able of establishing
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        connection to the same server computer as quickly as possible.
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    </para>
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</sect1>