Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 01:13:57 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: "Evan Champion" <evanc@synapse.net> Cc: "Brian Somers" <brian@awfulhak.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting PPP to start on CONNECT Message-ID: <199710260113.BAA08523@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Oct 1997 21:03:19 -0400." <01bce1aa$f2cc5aa0$513654c7@cello.synapse.net>
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> >Remove your "set login" script and add "set authname" and "set
> >authkey". It's all in the docs:
>
>
> What I was trying to say is that doesn't work.
>
> The Bitsurfr ROM 1L does not start passing PPP through from the remote side
> to the local machine until the local machine does something, which I assume
> is start a PPP negotiation. So what I want to do is force the local machine
> to start sending a PPP request as soon as it sees CONNECT.
>
> This is contrary to the old behaviour (ie: ROM 1K), where if I dialed with a
> terminal program I'd see the PPP negotiation from the remote server. I
> don't know why this changed, but Motorola hasn't fixed it in the 3 months
> that 1L has been out, and I doubt they will since 1L works just fine on 95
> and NT.
This is the default these days - you must have an "older" version of
ppp (older can be anything more than a day old :-)
If you have a version that doesn't start talking ppp imediately, add
the line "set openmode active" to your .conf file or type it at the
ppp prompt.
> Evan
Cheers.
--
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