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Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!



Jason Costomiris wrote after:
> 
> On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
> 
> > Cool off, man. What they seem to be talking about IS a Debian issue.
> > Although ppp support IS compiled into the kernel, the pppd is separate,
> > and the method by which you establish a connection, be it through pon, or
> > a custom script like I use, because as far as I know pon will not redial
> 
> Hmm..  Better not tell that to my system.  pppd keeps redialing until it
> gets connected..

yup, same here. which is nice 'cause i can reboot the remote machine
and walk away confident that the connection will be re-established.

what a relief.

also, i have found modular ppp support to work just fine as opposed to 
compiling it in.

m*

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