From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 21:09:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA04558 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04538 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:09:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from quisqueya.natserv.com (TC1-dial-58-142.oldslip.inch.com [207.240.142.58]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA20091 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:08:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810100408.AAA20091@federation.addy.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:09:22 -0000 (GMT) Reply-To: francisco@natserv.com From: Francisco Reyes To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ppp auto not dialing Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paraphrasing the man page for ppp... -auto will wait for a ppp packet to be sent and then dial... I run "ppp -auto my-isp" ppp becomes a daemon. I try a few programs which I believe would send packets, (netscape, fetchmail,ping) but ppp never dials. If I go into ppp using pppctl and type "dial" it dials my-isp ok. What I missing? ---- francisco@natserv.com The power to serve. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message