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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5, pppd and more ... Date: 25 Jul 1995 02:16:04 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3v1k54$ec1@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3uvmmu$b8j@lynet.lynet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3uvmmu$b8j@lynet.lynet.de>, Uwe Gruentjes <uweg@lynet.de> wrote: >- Does pppd (the one that comes with the system) work? Yes, but not for doing this: >- How do I initiate a communications link (dial on demand) when > somebody requests an internet service? >- How do I close the communications link when the service isn't needed > any longer? Both of these services are provided by ijppp (/usr/bin/ppp) in FreeBSD 2.0.5. They were not, unfortuantely, part of 1.1.5[.1] nor would they be easy to add due to the lack of a tunneling device driver in 1.x. All the other issues you raise would be dealt with automatically if you could upgrade to 2.0.5. Jordan