docs/50879: Fixes and Additions to PPTP section of PPP/SLIP chapter
Dominic Marks
dom at cus.org.uk
Sat Apr 12 20:20:06 UTC 2003
>Number: 50879
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Fixes and Additions to PPTP section of PPP/SLIP chapter
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Apr 12 13:20:04 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Dominic Marks
>Release: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p3 i386
>Organization:
UMIST
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD moo.cus.org.uk 4.7-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p3 #3: Mon Jan 20 23:49:12 GMT 2003 root at moo.cus.org.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BAA i386
>Description:
A variety of clarifcations and fixes:
o Capitalise "SpeedTouch" as Alcatel do.
o Abbreviation "PPTP" should be capitalised.
o Correct typo in configuration example, actcomp -> acfcomp.
o Clarify what two IP addresses actually represent in the
configuration example with callouts.
o Insert missing interface name "ng0" in output example.
>How-To-Repeat:
NA
>Fix:
Index: chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.100
diff -u -r1.100 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml 2003/03/01 01:24:14 1.100
+++ chapter.sgml 2003/04/12 20:10:36
@@ -2129,7 +2129,7 @@
PPPoA is a popular choice among European DSL providers.</para>
<sect2>
- <title>Using PPPoA with the Alcatel Speedtouch USB</title>
+ <title>Using PPPoA with the Alcatel SpeedTouch USB</title>
<para>PPPoA support for this device is supplied as a port in FreeBSD
because the firmware is distributed under <ulink
@@ -2147,9 +2147,11 @@
<title>Using mpd</title>
<para>You can use <application>mpd</application> to connect to a variety
- of services, in particular pptp services. You can find
+ of services, in particular PPTP services. You can find
<application>mpd</application> in the ports collection,
- <filename role="package">net/mpd</filename>.</para>
+ <filename role="package">net/mpd</filename>. Many ADSL modems
+ require that a PPTP tunnel is created between the modem and
+ computer, one such modem is the Alcatel SpeedTouch Home.</para>
<para>First you must install the port, and then you can configure
<application>mpd</application> to suit your requirements and provider
@@ -2177,7 +2179,7 @@
id="co-mpd-ex-pass">
set bundle disable multilink
- set link no pap actcomp protocomp
+ set link no pap acfcomp protocomp
set link disable chap
set link accept chap
set link keep-alive 30 10
@@ -2210,9 +2212,23 @@
set link type pptp
set pptp mode active
set pptp enable originate incoming outcall
- set pptp self 10.0.0.140
- set pptp peer 10.0.0.138</programlisting>
+ set pptp self <replaceable>10.0.0.1</replaceable> <co
+ id="co-mpd-ex-self">
+ set pptp peer <replaceable>10.0.0.138</replaceable> <co
+ id="co-mpd-ex-peer"></programlisting>
+ <calloutlist>
+ <callout arearefs="co-mpd-ex-self">
+ <para>The IP address of your &os; computer which you will be
+ using <application>mpd</application> from.
+ </callout>
+ <callout arearefs="co-mpd-ex-peer">
+ <para>The IP address of your ADSL modem. For the Alcatel
+ SpeedTouch Home this address defaults to <hostid
+ role="ipaddr">10.0.0.138</hostid></para>
+ </callout>
+ </calloutlist>
+
<para>It is possible to initialise the connection easily by issuing the
following command as <username>root</username>.</para>
@@ -2222,7 +2238,7 @@
command.</para>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>ifconfig <replaceable>ng0</replaceable></userinput>
-: flags=88d1<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
+ng0: flags=88d1<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 216.136.204.117 --> 204.152.186.171 netmask 0xffffffff</screen>
<para>Using <application>mpd</application> is the recommended way to
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