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On 5/18/06, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> wrote:
> Enable echo so ppp will know when the other peer is down, and then will act
> as you tell it to. I think enabling echo and -ddial mode will be fine, no need of
> scripting, but anyways the recommended way of interacting with ppp(8) is
> pppctl(8).

Also, the handbook doesn't mention pppctl in the pppoe section. I just
followed the handbook.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html

I'll read up on pppctl. Thanks.

Mike
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