Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 19:05:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow <rsnow@txdirect.net> To: Anthony Hill <ahill@netspace.net.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp.conf - how to dial and connect from command line ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950929190410.12720A-100000@oasis> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950930092955.11737D-100000@tornado.netspace.net.au>
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On Sat, 30 Sep 1995, Anthony Hill wrote: > > I know this is a FAQ, but I still cant find the answer. > > I want to get ppp to dial and connect to my ISP with a single command. > (from a cron job actually) > At the moment my ppp.conf looks like this :- > > work: > set speed 38400 > set device /dev/cuaa1 > set ifaddr 202.21.8.125 192.189.54.25 > set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" ATE1Q0 OK-AT-OK > \\dATDT\ > \T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" > set phone 131929 > set login "TIMEOUT 9 Username:-\\r-Username: myname word: mypass > ppp > name: myname word: mypass > set timeout 120 > > Which is great - but I still have to manually send the 'dial' command to ppp > before it will actually dial. How can I get it to dial without manually > sending the dial command. (Dial on demand is not appropriate) > > Thanks > Anthony Hill > ahill@connect.com.au I believe all you need is one more line that says "dial" or somesuch. ______________________________________________________________________ Rob Snow Powered by FreeBSD rsnow@txdirect.net http://www.freebsd.org
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