PPP: Difference between revisions

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PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) allows multiple transports, eg. PPPoE is PPP over Ethernet.

apk add ppp-pppoe

Such file is usually located as /etc/ppp/peers/<isp>. See pppd(8) for all possible options.

This example peer file is based on Debian's peers-pppoe extra file.

user "myusername@realm"
plugin rp-pppoe.so
eth0
noipdefault
usepeerdns
defaultroute
persist
noauth

CHAP authentication is most used one but there are other ones, see pppd(8).

# Secrets for authentication using CHAP
# client	server	secret			IP addresses
"myusername@realm"	        *	"<your password>"

pppoe must be present in /etc/modules when using PPPoE.

To use /etc/network/interfaces with a ppp defintion automatically, ifupdown-ng-ppp package must be installed.

apk add ifupdown-ng-ppp

Example for PPP configuration in /etc/network/interfaces, see interfaces-ppp(5) for more info.

auto ppp0
iface ppp0
	ppp-provider isp

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 Such file is usually located as ''/etc/ppp/peers/<isp>''. See [https://ppp.samba.org/pppd.html pppd(8)] for all possible options.
-==== PPPOE ====
+==== PPPoE ====
 This example peer file is based on Debian's [https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ppp/-/raw/master/debian/extra/peers-pppoe peers-pppoe] extra file.
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 == Kernel modules ==
-''pppoe'' must be present in ''/etc/modules''.
+=== PPPoE ===
+''pppoe'' must be present in ''/etc/modules'' when using PPPoE.
 == ''ifupdown-ng'' intergration ==