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From: mwills@harris.com (M. Scott Wills)
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Subject: Demand dialed PPP (was Re: FOLLOWUP: PPP client setup help)
Date: 21 May 1995 14:26:50 GMT
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Demand dialed ppp'ers please read on.

In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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 ijppp or dp2.3 for netbsd?  I have netbsd1.0 amiga.
What OS version is required?
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