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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
Subject: Re: bin/1469: it is difficult to run /usr/sbin/ppp from a script
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The following reply was made to PR bin/1469; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/1469: it is difficult to run /usr/sbin/ppp from a script
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:16:16 -0400 (EDT)

 gord@enci.ucalgary.ca writes:
 > 
 > Another problem is that the current ppp calls its process id file
 > `/var/run/PPP.server', which may conflict if you have more than one IP
 > tunnel interface available.
 > 
 
 The process id is in PPP.other_end_of_the_link so that it is easy
 to do bi-directional demand dialing.  You need a way to kill the
 ppp process that is waiting to dial a machine when that machine
 dials you.
 
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