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From: tiger@teleport.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Demand PPP ?
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 94 10:06:18 PDT
Organization: Intel Corporation
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Does anyone know if demand PPP is avaiable for FreeBSD? By demand PPP I mean 
having FreeBSD automatically dial out to a PPP provider when it needs to make 
an 'outside' IP connection, and then automatically disconnecting after a period 
of network idleness.

Thanks

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Rex Wheeler  tiger@teleport.com