Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 19:05:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: Rob Snow <rsnow@txdirect.net>
To: Anthony Hill <ahill@netspace.net.au>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ppp.conf - how to dial and connect from command line ?
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On Sat, 30 Sep 1995, Anthony Hill wrote:

> 
> I know this is a FAQ, but I still cant find the answer.
> 
> I want to get ppp to dial and connect to my ISP with a single command.
> (from a cron job actually)
> At the moment my ppp.conf looks like this :-
> 
> work:
>  set speed 38400
>  set device /dev/cuaa1
>  set ifaddr 202.21.8.125 192.189.54.25
>  set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" ATE1Q0 OK-AT-OK 
> \\dATDT\
> \T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
>  set phone 131929
>  set login "TIMEOUT 9 Username:-\\r-Username: myname word: mypass > ppp 
> name: myname word: mypass
>  set timeout 120
> 
> Which is great - but I still have to manually send the 'dial' command to ppp
> before it will actually dial. How can I get it to dial without manually 
> sending the dial command. (Dial on demand is not appropriate)
> 
> Thanks
> Anthony Hill
> ahill@connect.com.au


I believe all you need is one more line that says  "dial"
or somesuch.

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