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From: larson@eryl.or.msal.com (Chris Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dialing PPP on bootup
Date: 03 Jan 1996 18:27:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: jalen@digital.netvoyage.net's message of 30 Dec 1995 08:55:58 GMT

In article <4c2uqu$k7o@news.netvoyage.net> jalen@digital.netvoyage.net (Jalen Lee) writes:

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   From: jalen@digital.netvoyage.net (Jalen Lee)
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>   Hello. I am curerntly establishing ppp connection AFTER the system has 
>   booted up, from shell manually. I'd like to know if there is a way to 
>   make the system to automatically start dailing and connect to my ISP via 
>   ppp, on its booting process. So that it wouldn't get errors like "SMTP 
>   servers not found"
>   Thanks in advance
>
>   Jalen

You could put the command to start PPP in one of the rc scripts in /etc I 
believe.

chris
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Chris Larson