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Subject: Re: Getting PPP to start on CONNECT 
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 01:08:11 -0400
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>This is the default these days - you must have an "older" version of
>ppp (older can be anything more than a day old :-)


I tried it with 3.0-current-971024.  Hopefully that isn't considered too old
:-)  I also tried it with a mid-September snap and a couple others.

>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.

As I recall, I tried that but it didn't do anything differently.

Evan