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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@nike.efn.org>
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On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Nate Williams wrote:

[...]

> to be a dedicated auto-dialing program?  Also, what do the openmode
> 'passive' and 'active' flags stand for?

I'm not sure if this is correct... but on pppd in active mode it would 
send out lcp packets (I think they're the ones) to tell the other end that 
it is there and ready to talk... in passive mode it just waits for 
them...  hope this is right... TTYL..

John-Mark

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