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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!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!europa.clark.net!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.global-one.no!not-for-mail From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ppp -alias with 2.2.2 Date: 11 Jul 1997 03:15:23 +0200 Organization: GlobalOne Norway Lines: 24 Message-ID: <86oh8ae6dw.fsf@bitbox.follo.net> References: <33C16912.64C5@bitstream.net> <5prtpc$pso@news.gvsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bitbox.follo.net In-reply-to: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu's message of 7 Jul 1997 23:23:24 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44246 In article <5prtpc$pso@news.gvsu.edu> behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) writes: > > Joseph Moore (jomor@bitstream.net) wrote: > > : I recently "updated" from 2.1.7 to 2.2.2.. I use my freebsd box mainly > : as a gateway to my isp. The -alias switch doesn't appear to be available > : with the PPP user process anymore. Did it go away or what? Also... is > : there someplace that I can put the command to start PPP in on demand > : mode at boot time? I'd rather not have to log in to get things going. > > It's still there, it just works differently. You no longer need to issue > alias enable yes, simply providing the -alias switch is all you need to > do. The 'alias enable yes' was added as an alternative to the -alias switch; I added it because I needed to force all my users to enable aliasing when they ran PPP, and having them remember a command line argument would not have worked. So -alias has been there all along; "alias enable yes" was just a way of getting it from the config file. Eivind.