When I boot up Debian, insert a 4G USB dongle (Huawei E3372) and click on Network Manager, a Mobile Broadband option pops up andwhen I select it, it connects. I did't need to configure anything.
When I run
I can't find a ppp.conf so how is ppp() configured?
There is a /etc/ppp directory which contains:
I notice that there is no
When I run
ifconfig
(or rather ip a
) it shows:
Code:
5: ppp0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 3
link/ppp
inet 94.196.105.149/32 brd 94.196.105.149 scope global ppp0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
There is a /etc/ppp directory which contains:
Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 8 21:34 blob
-rw------- 1 root root 80 Jan 8 07:48 chap-secrets
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1754 Dec 4 2015 ip-down
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 8 07:48 ip-down.d
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1892 Dec 4 2015 ip-up
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 8 07:48 ip-up.d
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 784 Dec 4 2015 ipv6-down
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 2016 ipv6-down.d
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 922 Dec 4 2015 ipv6-up
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 2016 ipv6-up.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13209 Dec 4 2015 options
-rw------- 1 root root 1628 Jan 8 07:48 pap-secrets
drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 4096 Jan 8 07:48 peers
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 Feb 8 19:42 resolv.conf
./ip-down.d:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 581 Dec 4 2015 0000usepeerdns
./ip-up.d:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 902 Dec 4 2015 0000usepeerdns
./ipv6-down.d:
./ipv6-up.d:
./peers:
-rw-r----- 1 root dip 1093 Jan 8 07:48 provider
I notice that there is no
ppp
that I can find, so how does it work? Presumably there is something which is equivalent to ppp.conf...