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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
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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.
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