From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 20 23:47:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA17010 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 23:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (smmcdialin.ultra.net.au [203.56.101.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA17003 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 23:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from station1.ultra.net.au (white.colour.ultra.net.au [203.20.237.158]) by smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19655 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 15:31:45 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199709210531.PAA19655@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Keith Spencer" Organization: St Margaret Marys College To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 16:46:28 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: How to dial ppp auto?... : ^o Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all I am making headway, I have discovered how to use manual ppp & term If I do $ ppp ISP PPP on smmc2>term atdt713421 it dials out & I get a terminal connection Question... how do I get it to dial out on demand from say a ping ?? Interestingly if I do $ ppp PPP on smmc2> dial ISP no dial out occurs! The phone number etc is stored in ppp.conf ISP: so I would have thought it might...maybe I have o idea what I am doing here? I tried $ ppp -auto ISP but it gave me an error asking for dstaddr or such ??? help? Keith Spencer Teacher...St Margaret Marys College Townsville Australia