Account name and password??”Used to verify that you have an Internet account with
the ISP. This is an account name when you connect to Linux or other UNIX system, but
may be referred to as a system name when you connect to an NT server.
An IP number??”Most ISPs use Dynamic IP numbers, which means that you are
assigned an IP number temporarily when you are connected. Your ISP assigns a permanent
IP number if it uses Static IP addresses. If your computer or all the computers on
your LAN need to have a more permanent presence on the network, you may be given
one Static IP number or a set of Static IP addresses to use.
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DNS server IP addresses??”Your computer translates Internet hostnames to IP addresses
by querying a domain name system (DNS) server. Your ISP should give you at least one
IP address for a preferred (and possibly alternate) DNS server.
PAP or CHAP secrets??”You may need a PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) ID or
CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol) ID and a secret, instead of a username
and password when connecting to a Windows NT system. These features are used
with authentication on Microsoft and some other operating systems. Linux and other
UNIX servers don??™t typically use this type of authentication, although they support PAP
and CHAP on the client side.
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