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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 1995 02:51:50 +0000 ()
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        clouds@rmii.com (Philip Duclos)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ppp again
Message-ID:  <199511070251.CAA02650@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <m0tCSlU-000JfUC@rmii.com> from "Philip Duclos" at Nov 6, 95 07:43:12 am

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Philip Duclos stands accused of saying:
> 
> I'll ask my question again...
> 
> The man page for ppp doesn't come close to explaining how ppp works. Yes, I
> know that its a contribution from a Japanese developer and I appreciate
> his work and desire to share it with us. However the -auto feature does not
> autoconnect and in the interactive mode. once I'm disconnected I can't get 
> it to reconnect.

Auto mode _does_ autoconnect, and manual mode isn't supposed to reconnect.

> I strongly suspect that some portion of my configuration is incorrect however
> it *does* match the suggested setup.
> 
> Auto mode means something like - 
> 
> ppp -auto rmii
> 
> was added to one of your startup files. You expect ppp to autodial and connect
> whenever you access a non-local node on your network.
> 
> If you were able to get ppp to work in the fashion described above, please
> briefly explain how you did it.

My guess is that you've forgotten to add a route to the host at the other
end of the dial-on-demand link, so data never gets sent out to it, and thus
the demand dialler doesn't dial.

> Phil Duclos

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