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