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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!netcom.com!stanb From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) Subject: Help setting up autodial PPP to ISP Message-ID: <stanbDzw39F.7IL@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:34:27 GMT Lines: 23 Sender: stanb@netcom10.netcom.com 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. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1996 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.