Installing MacPPP
Configuring MacPPP
Connecting
Set the Port Name to match your Modem or Printer port, whichever you've used to connect your modem. Set the Idle Timeout to a reasonable selection for your system; if you leave it at None, you may find yourself logged out as soon as you log in. Set the Echo Interval to a reasonable number of seconds for your system. The echo interval is the number of seconds between when you type something in and expect to see it back when you're logged in.
Leave Terminal Window unchecked; we'll create a login script later. You can use the terminal window option if you want to log in manually, and start up PPP later.
The Hangup on Close and Quiet Mode options are up to you.
Press 
to create a new
configuration.
Type INK, INK 800, or whatever you like, and press 
.
Select the maximum speed you can connect at from the Port Speed menu. Select CTS &RTS(DTR) from the Flow Control field. These are modem options; you may want to be sure that you're modem's set up the same.
Fill in the Phone num field with 1-800-893-4936, including any access codes you use. For example, if your phone system needs a 9 to enable dialing out, enter 9-1-800-893-4936.
One word of warning: modems won't necessarily work over a digital phone line, so if you're dialing out of a digital system - usually one at work - check with the person who sets up the phones before you attach a modem to your system. The conflicts can be bad enough to ruin equiptment. If you just connect to the outside world without a PBX, you don't have to think about this.
Put your modem init string into the Modem Init field. For most people AT&F will set the modem back to its factory settings, which is fine. It's usually ok to leave it blank, although the modem init string may help you recover from a crash. The ATMO command should turn off the speaker, if it's just noisy.
Set your modem connect timeout to a value that makes sense for your system. This is the amount of time you want your modem to wait before it decides that it has a bad connection, or no connection.
Click on 
.
Fill it out like so:
NOTE: line 3 should actually read as follows:
\d\dterminal download\r\d\d192.159.86.6
Click on , then
click on 
.
Set your configuration to match, and click on
.
Click on again.
That's it! You should be ready to try to connect.
Connecting
The 
button should be available on the main Config PPP dialog. If
it isn't, you've probably made some changes to MacTCP, or you don't
have everything in the correct folders.
If you haven't made changes to MacTCP, and your
button is grayed
out, make sure that both the PPP Control Panel and extension are in place.
Click on the button. Your modem will dial, and you'll move
through several prompts, including your username and password, then ending
with Establishment, and Network. If you get to the
Establishment prompt, and then go to Link Dead,
you need to look at your Connect Script and IPCP Options. If you get
to Network and don't get a PPP connection, then you probably have a
bad IP address in either your MacTCP or IPCP Options.
If this all works OK, and you get a PPP UP in your PPP control panel
(along with clasping hands in the status icon), then try out a telnet session.
Telnet to a computer that you know by its IP address, and see whether you
connect. If you do, try it by name. If this is ok, you've got a good
connection.
If not, you have problems with your Domain Name Server setup, or possibly your Gateway, if you've got Obtain Address set to Manually.