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    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>
        This chapter describes how to configure &TCD; to provide some
        Internet services through the telephone line. In this chapter,
        the computer holding the Internet services is named the
        <quote>server</quote> and the computer that want to make use
        of such services is named the <quote>client</quote>. We assume
        that both server and client computers have been installed with
        &TCD; (release 5.5).
    </para>

    <para>
        The dial-up connections could be a choise when the only
        communication medium you have access to is the telephone line
        system.  In this configuration, both client and server
        computers use modems to transmit data through the telephone
        line in form of sound. The modem device used in this
        configuration was a Multi-Tech Modem (MT5634ZBA-USB) connected
        to an USB port. 
    </para>

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