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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp weirdness
Date: 9 Apr 1997 11:20:27 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5ieb8v$i70@news4.digex.net>,
mattm@black-cat.igloo.org (Matt Mosley) writes:
> 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?
This should work - the -background option was fixed just before the
release of 2.2.0. Can you post your config file ? Also, a copy of
any relevent logs would be nice. Thanks.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !