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11.1.1. Before you start

This document assumes you're in roughly this position:

You have an account with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) which lets you use PPP. Further, you have a modem (or other device) connected and configured correctly which allows you to connect to your ISP.

You are going to need the following information to hand:

IP address of your ISP's gateway
Your ISP's netmask setting
IP adresses of one or more nameservers
If your ISP allocates you a static IP address and/or hostname then you will need that as well. If not, you will need to know from what range of IP addresses your allocated IP address will fall in.

If you do not have any of this information then contact your ISP and make sure they provide it to you.

As well as this, you may need the files required to recompile your kernel. Check Kernel Configuration for more information on how to acquire these.

In addition, I've assumed that because your connection to the Internet is not full time you are not running a name server (named(8)).

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