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Subject: Re: current ppp sources 
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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 04:03:06 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> Victor Sudakov <vas@vas.tomsk.su> wrote:
> 
> > There is one thing I would like to know. Is the problem with multiple phone
> > numbers fixed? I mean, does
> > 
> > 	set phone 123456:456789:789456
> > 
> > work now?
> 
> Depends on your definition of "work" :-).  I'm using a 9706 version of ppp and 
> it does go through the phone number list, but I'd like the phone numbers to be 
> used as error fallbacks instead of continually cycling through the numbers.
> 
> That is, if I've got it set to "1111111:2222222:3333333", it only tries 
> 2222222 if 1111111 failed and 3333333 if 2222222 failed.  But the way it works 
> now (well...in my 9706 version) is that if the last number dialed was 1111111, 
> it'll try 2222222 regardless of whether or not 1111111 succeeded last time or 
> not.  But it's no big deal for me - it just keeps dropping me in the middle of 
> a hunt group of numbers instead of always starting at the first number.  I 
> could drop it back to just the first number, but occasionally something gets 
> weird with the number it gives me or with the hunting that it's nice to have 
> the fallback numbers.

Won't

  set phone "111111:222222:111111:333333"

solve this ?

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> 

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