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From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.amiga.unix,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Demand dialed PPP (was Re: FOLLOWUP: PPP client setup help)
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Date: 21 May 1995 14:37:40 GMT
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M. Scott Wills (mwills@harris.com) wrote:
: 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

You didn't mean "everything", did you? My PPP account password
changes every minute. I have to type in it by hand. How does it
handle that?

: > 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


H.J.