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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: FredI@worldnet.att.net (Alan W. Trulock) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help setting up autodial PPP to ISP Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:07:43 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3272b56e.2684129@netnews.worldnet.att.net> References: <stanbDzw39F.7IL@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.arlington-02.va.dial-access.att.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99f/16.299 I haven't been able to get the thing to work either! I switched to kernel PPP and it works great, just no autodial. --Al > 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.