PPP Requirements for Unsupported Platforms

This document is intended to provide setting information for making a PPP connection to USC using an operating system that is not supported by ITS. For operating systems that are supported by ITS please refer to the appropriate documentation. USC only supports PAP/CHAP authentication on the high speed modem lines. Connection scripts are not supported.

Phone Number: 213-743-2222
Modem requirements: 14400bps or faster with v.42bis and/or MNP-5
Communication speed: 57600bps or higher
Line Settings: N, 8, 1, Hardware Flow control (RTS/CTS)
Call Back: Not supported
IP Address: Dynamic assignment by terminal server
BootP: Not supported
RARP: Not supported
Net Mask: 255.255.255.0
Domain name: usc.edu
Name servers (DNS): 128.125.7.23, 128.125.253.143, 128.125.253.194
Protocol: PPP *ONLY*, not SLIP or CSLIP
PAP Authentication: Supported
CHAP Authentification: Not supported
DHCP: Not supported
Max. Transmission Unit: 1500 bytes
Header Compression: On

Last updated: Friday, June 20, 2008, 17:17PM PDT