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From: nickliu@netcom.com (Nick Liu)
Subject: Unable to establish a link
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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 18:09:24 GMT
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I am a newbie...  I am running a FreeBSD 2.1 system.  I wanted to use
ppp to dial out and connect to my ISP to use Netscape (UNIX).  I don't
know what procedure I must do to keep the connection alive because
once I get out of ppp the connection is lost.  

Help.