Set Up Earlier Windows Clients For Dial-In; Set Up Linux Clients For Dial-In - Tripp Lite B092-016 Owner's Manual

Chapter 5: Firewall, Failover and Out-of-Band
• Enter the PPP User Name and Password for have set up for the Console Server
5.1.4

Set up earlier Windows clients for dial-in

• For Windows 2000, the PPP client set up procedure is the same as above, except you get to the Dial-Up Networking
Folder by clicking the Start button and selecting Settings. Then click Network and Dial-up Connections and click
Make New Connection
• Similarly, for Windows 98, you double-click My Computer on the Desktop, then open Dial-Up Networking and double
click Make New Connection and proceed as above
5.1.5

Set up Linux clients for dial-in

The online tutorial http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialPPP .html presents a selection of methods for establishing a
dial up PPP connection:
• Command line PPP and manual configuration (which works with any Linux distribution)
• Using the Linuxconf configuration tool (for Red Hat compatible distributions). This configures the scripts ifup/ifdown to start
and stop a PPP connection
• Using the Gnome control panel configuration tool -
• WVDIAL and the Redhat "Dialup configuration tool"
• GUI dial program X-isp. Download/Installation/Configuration
Note: For all PPP clients:
• Set the PPP link up with TCP/IP as the only protocol enabled
• Specify that the Server will assign IP address and do DNS
• Do not set up the Console Server PPP link as the default for Internet connection
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