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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!central.co.nz!usenet From: dreama@central.co.nz (Mark Penney) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dial-on-demand internet connection? Date: 16 Aug 1995 22:02:25 GMT Organization: Dreama Unlimited Lines: 22 Message-ID: <40tpth$q0r@central.co.nz> References: <40r65d$bc8@central.co.nz> <40si87$cfp@news.hal-pc.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.36.37.1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.14 In article <40si87$cfp@news.hal-pc.org>, jhupp@gensys.com says... > The 'right' way to do this is via UUCP. This is the way to get Thanks Jeff unfortunately (or not? :-) there are many reasons why we need to avoid the UUCP path. One of them is due to a need to grow in the short term, to allow more services. I have quite a bit of experience with UUCP (using Waffle as a gateway), and although it has worked well I am looking at bigger and brighter things (not to mention learning about new things!). > If you feel you must use PPP, then you are going to have to move >to 2.0.5 to get the dial on demand code, but you can do UUCP over -=- Yep, it seems that most people are in agreement here. I am just starting to appreciate how little I know about networking UNIX! Can anyone recommend some practicle texts? (No programming please! :-) -=- Mark Penney \\ email: mark@dreama.gen.nz