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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!nobody From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP under BSD (have a heart) Date: 31 Jul 1994 14:42:18 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 12 Message-ID: <31guqq$ghs@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <317qnl$f1m@cyberspace.com> <michaelv.775404734@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <31aajm$gfe@euterpe.owl.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com In article <31aajm$gfe@euterpe.owl.de>, Martin Husemann <martin@euterpe.owl.de> wrote: >It's even simpler: I use the "connect" option to pppd to call "chat" with >a script to dial and log into the server. No manual action required... Anyone thought of a good way to get pppd to dial on demand? I've had this idea of hooking pppd up via a pty to a daemon that dialed when it got activity from pppd and then went into passthrough mode until it saw there was no activity for a while and dropped the connect. This would of course depend on TCP/IP's nice behaviour of happily resending stuff until things come up.