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Hi Simon,<br>
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I'm making an attempt at a reply...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-10-21 20:58, SIMON BABY wrote:<br>
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<font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000">No, these should be
given to you by your IAP (ISP)</font><br>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">what is USER=<a
href="mailto:bxxxnxnx@sympatico.ca" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">bxxxnxnx@sympatico.ca</a> here
? is this same as I provided in pap-secrets ?</font></div>
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Yes, I beleive it is... I have "" around mine...<br>
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<div>3. Set up DNS<br>
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<font color="#0000ff">Is the above configuration mandatory
? if I don't provide DNS, will it work?</font></div>
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<font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000">No, I don't think it
is, I pass "usepeerdns" and some magic happens results in the
ISP provided nameservers going into my /etc/resolve.conf</font><br>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">Is the above steps mandatory?<br>
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It's not mandatory, but asking the question is worrying unless
you're doing this on a machine set up just for this experiment and
you accept that connecting it to the public internet could result in
compromise...<br>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">5. I am trying to invoke the
client set up process in my application . Do I have to
use scripts or binaries? What scripts and processes do I
have to invoke for proper setup ?</font></div>
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Um, I think I my setup differs from yours here... I can just type<br>
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]# pppd call <i>iap</i><i><br>
</i>where <i>iap </i>is a file in /etc/ppp/peers/<br>
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Regards,<br>
DaveO<br>
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