Point-to-Point Protocol daemon

<h2 id="frontends-and-configurators">Frontends and configurators</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Kppp/2hwBebYh">kppp</a> – A kde <a href="/facts/Graphical_user_interface/wBlQFWDP">GUI</a> <a href="/facts/Front_end_processor_(program)/HoB832tg">frontend</a> for pppd.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Gnome-ppp/2hwBebYh">gnome-ppp</a> – A (discontinued) gnome <a href="/facts/Graphical_user_interface/wBlQFWDP">GUI</a> <a href="/facts/Front_end_processor_(program)/HoB832tg">frontend</a> for <a href="/facts/WvDial/2hwBebYh">WvDial</a>, which in turns depends on pppd.</li>
<li>pppconfig – It uses the standard ppp configuration files and sets ppp up so that the standard pon and poff commands (to connect and disconnect) and plog (to list the log) can be used to control ppp. It includes modem detection.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/WvDial/2hwBebYh">WvDial</a> – A <a href="/facts/Command-line_interface/R9JpGmXQ">CLI</a> tool which is used for <a href="/facts/Modem_initialisation/jqgtsCtH">modem initialisation</a> before starting pppd.</li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="/facts/Man_page/S2yYjy0J">Manual page</a>: pppd(8) (<i>man pppd</i> in a <a href="/facts/Unix/0pNL2seI">Unix</a> <a href="/facts/Terminal_emulator/yNfevBJd">terminal</a> or <a href="https://ppp.samba.org/pppd.html">pppd man page at ppp.samba.org</a>).</li></ul>
<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/">Linux PPP HOWTO</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/faq/part5/">FAQ about ppp configuration</a></li>
<li><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto/SetUpDialer#head-0769b0061bf81bfba710118540bd86223e815761">Use of pon, poff and plog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/471/debug_ppp_negotiation.html">Understanding debug ppp negotiation Output</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ppp.samba.org/pppd.html">pppd(8)</a>: Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-ppp">Linux-ppp mailing list</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/rp-pppoe/">RP-PPPoE</a>, a PPPoE client, server and relay implementation for Linux.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/xebd/accel-ppp">ACCEL-PPP</a>, high performance PPTP/L2TP/PPPoE/IPoE server for Linux.</li>
<li><a href="http://freecode.com/projects/pppd/">"pppd"</a>. <i><a href="/facts/Freecode/8cRStm9o">Freecode</a></i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/ppp/">Apple ppp source</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"pppconfig(8)". <a href="http://man.he.net/man8/pppconfig" target="_blank">http://man.he.net/man8/pppconfig</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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