From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 05:38:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA11797 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:38:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd.tseinc.com (bsd.tseinc.com [199.217.191.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA11792 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:38:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ws2.tseinc.com (ws2.tseinc.com [199.217.241.142]) by bsd.tseinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA06766; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 07:41:10 GMT Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 07:41:10 GMT Message-Id: <199602130741.HAA06766@bsd.tseinc.com> X-Sender: jlwest@bsd.tseinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: nate@sri.MT.net From: "Jay L. West" Subject: Re: Several misc. questions on user mode PPP Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 08:47 AM 2/9/96 -0700, you wrote: >> >> I think he was just looking for a somewhat more elegant way to >> starting the interface, as opposed to editing /etc/netstart, which is >> now supposed to be sacrosanct. Try the following: > >Hmm, that's not the impression I got. He was using -auto already, but >needed to pint the remote host to get things started. I was wanting to have the system bring up the link (ie. dial) upon bootup without haveing to do the ping command to 'fudge' an outgoing packet. But I do think the start_if.interface script is rather elegant, and will do it that way. (Albeit, that doesn't solve the original question). Jay West