Re: PPP server installation

Bill Unruh writes:
> No if, as I recall he said, he is dialing in to the machine. He needs
> something to answer the phone, and pppd is not good at that.
> Also, He had better put in the passive option as well, or pppd will
> continually send out LCP requests, not get answered for 10 times, die,
> be reborn, etc.

... which is mostly harmless.  ;-}

Actually, if he uses "connect /bin/true" as one of the options, then
pppd will wait for DCD to go high before doing anything.  With the
right settings on the modem (automatically answer when DTR is high),
that should be enough ...

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James Carlson                                  <carlson <at> workingcode.com>
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