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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
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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.