
Chapter 8 – Point-to-Point Protocol
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PPP Interface Related Parameters
Enabling/Disabling Authentication
This command enables or disables a PPP Authentication session. If Authentication is enabled, then the
authentication protocol, the user name, and password should also be set:
Command: # set ppp [interface] authentication <enable/disable>
Example: # set ppp ppp0 authentication enable
OK
Authentication Type - Protocol
This command sets the Authentication type.
Command: # set ppp [interface] auth-type <pap/chap/pap-chap>
Example: #set ppp ppp0 auth-type pap
OK
User Name and Password for Remote Peer Authentication
This command sets the user name with which the remote server will authenticate. If authentication is
disabled, this need not be configured.
Command: # set ppp [interface] username
# set ppp [interface] password
Example: # set ppp ppp0 username user1
OK
#set ppp ppp0 password user1
OK
IPCP Mode
This command sets the IPCP mode.
Command: # set ppp [interface] ipcp-mode <client-only/client-or-lan>
Examples: # set ppp ppp0 ipcp-mode client-only
OK
When ipcp-mode is set to client-only, the local and remote ip addresses are set to
0.0.0.0 automatically
# set ppp ppp0 ipcp-mode client-or-lan
OK
When ipcp-mode is set to client-or-lan, the local and remote ip addresses have to
be configured
PPP Trace
This command enables or disables the PPP Trace.
Command: # set ppp [interface] trace <enable/disable>
Example: # set ppp ppp0 trace enable
OK
When trace is set to enable, PPP link negotiations are logged and can be viewed by the show command.
Ping Keep-Alive
This command enables or disables the keep-alive feature.
Command: # set ppp [interface] ping-keepalive <enable/disable>
The Server configuration for the SocketModem to ping to.
Command: # set ppp [interface] ping-keepalive ping-host <hostname/ip-address>
The number of packets sent before concluding the PPP link is down. Note that a single response would from
the server would suffice to conclude the “PPP link up”.
Command: # set ppp [interface] ping-keepalive ping-no-of-packets <1-100>
The time interval between subsequent ping attempts.
Command: # set ppp [interface] ping-keepalive ping-interval <0-65355> seconds.
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