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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.ess.harris.com!mwills From: mwills@harris.com (M. Scott Wills) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FOLLOWUP: PPP client setup help - The final chapter Date: 21 May 1995 14:17:24 GMT Organization: Harris Corporation Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3pni1k$bfd@su102w.ess.harris.com> References: <betts.28.00A4DF49@onramp.net> <3pmugh$2j8@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: zephyr.ess.harris.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #62 (NOV) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >Fortunately, this is all a bodge that can go away in 2.0-950412-SNAP and >later. Simply use ijppp! It's in /usr/bin/ppp, and handles everything. >Dialing, PPP negotiation (including advanced CHAP/PAP negotiation) and >it's totally on-demand, meaning that you can set a timeout and it will >hang up the line after a certain interval and "go passive." When you >need to talk to a remote host again, it will wake up automagically and >dial the line. I have it started in my rc.local, and when the system boots >it dials up my provider in response to my ntpdate setting to update the >system clock from inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com.. :-) Works a charm. Since I don't >pay for my ppp access, I also have timeout set to 0 so that it's always >up and only redials if and when the line drops for some reason. Precisely what I am looking for. I was going to try to compile dp2.3 (phoenix.acn.purdue.edu) which was developed for SunOS, because it was the only free ppp I knew of with demand dialing. Has anyone compiled it or dp2.3 for netbsd? I have netbsd1.0 amiga. What OS version is required? Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- M. Scott Wills, mwills@harris.com, Voice: 407-729-3283, Fax: 407-729-7459