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From: ah@alvman.RoBIN.de (Andreas Haakh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Information for Dial-on-demand PPP
Date: 6 Oct 1995 08:38:10 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: Ralph Hughes <rhughes2@lan.mcl.bdm.com> wrote:
: >The subject says it all.
: >Does anyone have any information or experience setting up FreeBSD (or any unix
: >server for that matter) as a dial-on-demand PPP router?
: >What I'm after is the ability to dial a different number depending on the 
: >IP address.
: 
: Look at the sample files in /etc/ppp for the iijppp (/usr/sbin/ppp)
: program that comes with FreeBSD 2.0.5+.

I just set up ppp and as far as I know you can only define one
dialup-demand per modem. 

But I encountered a strange problem. Sometimes ppp dies, leaving the
phone-line connected. Maybe sombody has seen the same problem.

Andreas
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