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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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> > > I tryed "ppp -dedicated" but it works only once. 
> > 
> > Have you read the instructions in the handbook?  Are your modems setup
> > correctly?   Details, details....
> > 
> 
> I read the handbook, But I only find some information about kernel ppp
> the modem seems to be working. I think that there is a bug somewhere
> in user ppp used with -dedicated. I got a 8Mb core file!.

There are some bugs with user ppp.  When I used it for a dedicated line,
it wouldn't work more than a day w/out dumping core.  However, Doug
Rabson is looking at some patches (Doug, how are they looking?) which
make it more robust.

> I'll try a to setup a (user) ppp server with an access through login

My advice is to switch to kernel pppd until the bugs in user-ppp are
fixed unless you have the time and desire to track them down.


Nate