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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!kientzle From: kientzle@netcom.com Subject: TIA, IJPPP, and Demand Dialing. Message-ID: <kientzleDJJJ8t.3vL@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 19:53:17 GMT Lines: 24 Sender: kientzle@netcom15.netcom.com Just finished installing 2.1R (Nice installation, BTW!), and have almost everything from my old 2.0R system restored and functioning. I'd like to take advantage of the demand-dialed PPP, but have encountered a problem. For the record, I'm dialing into an Internet Shell account, and have TIA 2.0.6 running on that end. If I run `ppp' and use `term' to dial manually, everything works fine except that ppp never detects the start of the connection. I have to manually use ~p to force it into packet mode. At that point (after an error from `rtinit' about `bad ifa'), everything seems to work fine. If I try to use a scripted dial, it seems to dial, login, and start TIA correctly, but never goes into packet mode. 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? Any insight appreciated, Tim Kientzle