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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!news2.digex.net!black-cat.igloo.org!mattm From: mattm@black-cat.igloo.org (Matt Mosley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: ppp weirdness Date: 8 Apr 1997 20:53:51 GMT Organization: DIGEX Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5ieb8v$i70@news4.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: black-cat.igloo.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38796 I've encountered a strange problem with "ppp" under FreeBSD 2.2.1, and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this. When I run ppp in command line mode, giving it the argument for the host that I want it to dial, and type "dial", it brings up the link fine, first try. When I run "ppp -background" with the same host argument, it just sits there indefinitely. Am I missing something obvious?