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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:10:42 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: chris@ferraro.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, theta@gte.net
Subject: Re: ppp autoredial on disconnect
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On Sun, Aug 31, 1997 at 06:02:38PM -0700, Thomas Dean wrote:
> Read the ppp man page.

I think he did.

> You want ppp -auto ...

I think he wants what he said, ppp -ddial.  -ddial keeps the
connection up all the time.  -auto only keeps it up when there is
traffic.

Greg