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From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown)
Subject: Help setting up autodial PPP to ISP
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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:34:27 GMT
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	Could some kind soul give me some advice on setting up PPP to
my local ISP?

	I am trying to get autodial to work. I presently have gotten
it working corectly for manual dialing. I am using user mode PPP.
I could switch to kernelmode if that will solve my problem. The ISP in
question dynamically assigns me an IP address on every dial in. Every
time I try to do "ppp -auto isp" I get an error message saying that I
have to specefiy the destination address to use this feature. Does
this mean I can't do this? Or am I missing somehting?

	I have read the section in th handbook on setting this up, and
it's not clear to me how to do what I want to do. I have also read the
ppp man page.

	Any advice would be appreciated.


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Stan Brown     stanb@netcom.com                                    404-996-6955
Factory Automation Systems
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