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Subject: ppp -auto?
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Hi,

I'm using FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE. I have set up user ppp with alias enable yes
so that the 3 machines on my little lan can get to the internet all at once.

I'm having some trouble with the -auto switch, though. 

Whenever I issue the command

%ppp -auto

the modem dials immediately, even if neither of my client machines are
running netscape, a mail client, or anything else that might want to
connect to the internet. It also stays connected forever, even though I set
timeout=600 for 10 minutes. 

As I understood it, ppp -ddial was supposed to maintain continuous
connections, not -auto. 


I imagine I've just set something up wrong, but I can't figure out what.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

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