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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!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP! PPP new to unix networking1 Date: 2 Jan 1997 13:26:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5agd1u$6fa@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <FpclwAAFzoxyIwCD@richsoft.demon.co.uk> <JsW2RCAs$9xyIwTZ@richsoft.demon.co.uk> <5aevda$8oo@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33488 brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > Maybe it's worth having a timeout in iijppp that either suggests that > nobody has started negotiations or that starts negotiations despite > openmode ? Any votes ? Have a look at the `passive' vs. `silent' options of pppd(8). I think `passive' would be the best default. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)