Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 14:27:10 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Philip Duclos <clouds@rmii.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp - auto not working Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951104142231.3094B-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0tBn2t-000JfRC@rmii.com>
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On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, Philip Duclos wrote: > ppp seems like it would be a great program if I could only find uot > how to configure it. > > Specifically, I can't make it work in auto mode. > > In interactive mode, once it times out it will never reconnect. No doubt > these problems are interrelated. > > How and when is the filter file invoked? Can its name be changed or > is it hardcoded? > > The documentation is, to put it nicely, incomplete. I'm not asking for a > nutshell book, just a little more info. It might help if you knew that this came from a fellow in Japan who didn't write it for FreeBSD, and wrote the main doc in Japanese. The doc you see is somewhat of an improvement over the original, and folks are slowly hacking it, but this isn't a FreeBSD original. In the same manner that you shouldn't expect the FreeBSD hackers to do surgery on the gcc C compiler, this is the same thing; altho, since this is much smaller, improvements are indeed happening. Auto does work, after a fashion. Read the man page, and follow it a bit more literally that you'd expect to have to, and things will work better, but bugs in iijppp DO exist yet. > > Help? > > Phil Duclos > ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.
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