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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 1996 07:41:10 GMT
From:      "Jay L. West" <jlwest@tseinc.com>
To:        nate@sri.MT.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Several misc. questions on user mode PPP
Message-ID:  <199602130741.HAA06766@bsd.tseinc.com>

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At 08:47 AM 2/9/96 -0700, you wrote:

>> 
>> I think he was just looking for a somewhat more elegant way to
>> starting the interface, as opposed to editing /etc/netstart, which is
>> now supposed to be sacrosanct.  Try the following:
>
>Hmm, that's not the impression I got.  He was using -auto already, but
>needed to pint the remote host to get things started.

I was wanting to have the system bring up the link (ie. dial) upon bootup
without haveing to do the ping command to 'fudge' an outgoing packet. But I
do think the start_if.interface script is rather elegant, and will do it
that way. (Albeit, that doesn't solve the original question).

Jay West




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