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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TIA, IJPPP, and Demand Dialing.
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 00:07:27 GMT
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kientzle@netcom.com wrote:
>My guess is that both TIA and ppp are waiting for the other one to
>start.  The TIA folks have `no current plans to add active start'.  Is
>there some trick I can use to work around this?  E.g., faking a packet
>to trick one end into believing the other has started; special script
>command to coerce ppp into packet mode?

If this is your problem, add

  set openmode active

to your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf (or type it by hand!) and ppp will initiate the
protocol exchange.