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From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
To: Brad Hendrickse <bradh@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: PPP
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Brad Hendrickse writes:
 > Basically, I need
 > to fool the modem into thinking I'm going to be dialing for it (Linux and
 > Win95 can do it, surely FreeBSD can ;)) Does 'ppp' or 'pppd' support that?

I believe that with ppp, if you don't specify any dial strings, it will
assume it is dialed each time you initialize the connection.  This works
for login strings, which are an extension of the dialing strings.

-- 
          "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com