From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 14:44:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA24883 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 14:44:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sonia.adweb.com (j7.brf9.jaring.my [161.142.2.149]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA24859 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 14:44:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from adrchew@localhost) by sonia.adweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id FAA00493; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 05:38:21 +0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 05:38:21 +0800 (SGT) From: Adrian Chew X-Sender: adrchew@sonia.adweb.com To: Questions FreeBSD Subject: PPP Configuration... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've got user PPP configured on my system only to find out that ppp wants a dstaddr (destination IP address) for -auto mode... is there a way to work around this for dial-up PPP with dynamic IP addressing? My only other alternative is to configure pppd, and for this the handbook suggests using kermit... kermit doesn't seem to come with WC's FreeBSD 2.1R CDROMs? I need to get it automated or at least command-line mode controllable... am planning to use crontab to schedule checks into my POP email server to check for mail automatically at certain intervals. Popclient part is easy but PPP connection has left me stumped so far. Any suggestions? Regards, Adrian Chew adrchew@pop.jaring.my