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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!ahabig From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: pppd vs user PPP Date: 24 Jan 1996 18:04:10 GMT Organization: Indiana University High Energy Astrophysics Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4e5saq$r7d@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <mitch4DLA4FI.Ju3@netcom.com> <4dk52v$4ik@parody.tecc.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu James Raynard <james@parody.tecc.co.uk> wrote: >For what it's worth, I used pppd before ppp became available and I >couldn't be bothered writing, and more importantly testing, a load of >new scripts, so I'm still using it now. Actually, this is a big problem with user ppp - how does one write scripts for it? As far as I can tell, you can't just start it from the command line, with a return code if it didn't connect. That makes is impossible to use in scripts. Sure, you can run it in the auto mode, but then you've got a lot less control over when it goes up/down, and redialing a busy number is a lot slower. Of course, I could just be plain wrong, having overlooked a feature, or maybe there's undocumented stuff that fixes this? -- Alec Habig, Indiana University High Energy Astrophysics ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu http://www.astro.indiana.edu/home/ahabig/ Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.