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Re: pppd on demand trouble



On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:59:13PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
> >Donald Spoon writes:
> >
> >-Snip- <
> >>It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to
> >>start the pppd program in the demand mode at boot time or not.
> >
> >
> >No.  It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to
> >start the pppd program at bootup.  Whether or not it starts in demand mode
> >depends on how the "provider" peer is configured.
> 
> I thought that is what I said.  I don't get the "difference"...

No, you said the file acted as a trigger to start ppp _in demand
mode_.  It's right there in the quoted section. :-)

I suspect you meant to say what John said but careless sentence
construction resulted in something else (no offense meant).

-- 
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
  We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.



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