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Installing Accel-ppp on Ubuntu 22.04

Introduction

• The Accel-ppp project has quite a lot documentation available along with forums which you can go through to gather information.
• Their install instructions served as a reference for the instructions on this page.
• https://docs.accel-ppp.org/en/latest/installation/ubuntu.html

Install Instructions

• Install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake gcc linux-headers-`uname -r` git libpcre3-dev libssl-dev liblua5.1-0-dev

• Checkout the latest git source code:

sudo git clone https://github.com/accel-ppp/accel-ppp.git /opt/accel-ppp-code

• Create directory for build source code and go to this directory.

sudo mkdir /opt/accel-ppp-code/build
cd /opt/accel-ppp-code/build/

• Generate the Makefile:

sudo cmake -DBUILD_IPOE_DRIVER=TRUE -DBUILD_VLAN_MON_DRIVER=TRUE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DKDIR=/usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` -DLUA=TRUE -DCPACK_TYPE=Ubuntu22 ..

• Compile

sudo make

• Create a DEB package

sudo cpack -G DEB

• Install the package

sudo dpkg -i accel-ppp.deb

• If the install went OK you can use the reference config file and make it active

sudo mv /etc/accel-ppp.conf.dist /etc/accel-ppp.conf

• We will cover a basic PPPoE server's config on its own dedicated Wiki page.
• See if it starts up. It should start up wit the default config file

sudo systemctl start accel-ppp
sudo systemctl status accel-ppp

• Make sure the service is enabled for start-up

sudo systemctl enable accel-ppp

• Should you want to start the service up manually

sudo accel-pppd -d -c /etc/accel-ppp.conf -p /var/run/accel-ppp.pid

• Next we will take a look of some of the important files that were installed with the accel-ppp.deb package

Important files