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From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: demand dial ppp for NetBSD
Date: 16 Aug 1995 01:49:19 -0500
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Hi Ignatios, on Aug 15 you wrote:

> In article <40ohht$14oc@ftp.univie.ac.at>
> dillo@stieltjes.smc.univie.ac.at (Dieter Baron) writes:

>    is there any ppp package for NetBSD (or one that can be made to
>    compile and run there) that supports demand dialing?

> PPP is built in, but no demand dialing...  

You might try using the CHAT command to do the dialing for you like:

pppd <dev> <speed> modem defaultroute connect 'chat "" ATZ OK ATDT<phone #> ...'

filling in the rest of the handshaking with the remote end as needed.

For SLIP, there is a bsddip (modified DIP) program that includes its own
dialer program which uses a pseudo Expect script.