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To: "Geier, Billy" <geier@spartan.com>
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Subject: Re: PPP Routing 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> Thanks for the help and it work now but I have another problem. When the
> machine boots and loads the user ppp by the following: 'ppp -auto -alias
> demand' it dials and connects. If I don't load it thur the rc.conf.local
> and just load it after it boots then login as root and load ppp then it
> is ok for the montment. When I ping something on the outside world it
> dials and connects like it should but then it sometimes will not drop
> the line after the 5 minutes I have it set for. Or it does drop the line
> but then dials and connects again. It is like it is running with the
> -ddial option. There is no tpc/ip traffic on the net as I unhooked my
> LAN from it to make sure. I have tried this with and without the local
> DNS running with no change. Also sometimes when I try to ping something
> it times out (ttl) but it is now set with a higher number but no change.
> Thanks
> Billy Geier
> geier@spartan.com
> 
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Check the FAQ on http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/userppp.html.

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