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To: "Evan Champion" <evanc@synapse.net>
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Subject: Re: Getting PPP to start on CONNECT 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> >Remove your "set login" script and add "set authname" and "set
> >authkey".  It's all in the docs:
> 
> 
> What I was trying to say is that doesn't work.
> 
> The Bitsurfr ROM 1L does not start passing PPP through from the remote side
> to the local machine until the local machine does something, which I assume
> is start a PPP negotiation.  So what I want to do is force the local machine
> to start sending a PPP request as soon as it sees CONNECT.
> 
> This is contrary to the old behaviour (ie: ROM 1K), where if I dialed with a
> terminal program I'd see the PPP negotiation from the remote server.  I
> don't know why this changed, but Motorola hasn't fixed it in the 3 months
> that 1L has been out, and I doubt they will since 1L works just fine on 95
> and NT.

This is the default these days - you must have an "older" version of 
ppp (older can be anything more than a day old :-)

If you have a version that doesn't start talking ppp imediately, add 
the line "set openmode active" to your .conf file or type it at the 
ppp prompt.

> Evan

Cheers.

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