The Point-to-Pont-Protokoll (ppp) allows the connection and authentification toward an Internet-Service-Provider (ISP). As the pptp-client requieres a pretty new version of ppp, the upgrade has to be done before Installation of the pptp-Client.
Credits:In
general thanks to Manuel Capellari, whose document 'ADSL unter Linux'
(http://www.gnustuff.com/pub/doc/adsl-howto/adsl-howto.html
- in german) was a valuable guideline on the way to my
highspeed-internet-connection.
But
- some steps were pretty frustrating. Due to a conflict with the
versions of a prerequisite-program it is not possible to install the
latest version of ppp (at the time of writing this document in
October 2004 it was ppp-2.4.3-0.cvs_20040527.2.i386.rpm
).
Thanks
to many contributors of several newsgroups i found out, that the
latest working release of the ppp-package is ppp-2.4.2_cvs_30031104.
Operating-system installed ;-).
Logged on as user root.
A version of ppp-package below 2.4.2; check with the command pppd --version.
Installation-instructions:A
reliable version can be downloaded as a rpm-file from the following
internet-site:
http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pptpclient/ppp-2.4.2_cvs_20030610-1.i386.rpm
Download
the file to a directory of your choice (furtheron referred as
download_directory).
After
the download is complete, start the installation using the
RedHat-Packet-Manager by issuing the following command:
rpm
-Uvh /download_directory/ppp-2.4.2_cvs_20030610-1.i386.rpm
The
actual version can be verified by issuing the commandpppd
--version