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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!pencotts.demon.co.uk From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TIA, IJPPP, and Demand Dialing. Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 00:07:27 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: <818899647.7832@pencotts.demon.co.uk> References: <kientzleDJJJ8t.3vL@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kientzle@netcom.com X-URL: news:kientzleDJJJ8t.3vL@netcom.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii kientzle@netcom.com wrote: >My guess is that both TIA and ppp are waiting for the other one to >start. The TIA folks have `no current plans to add active start'. Is >there some trick I can use to work around this? E.g., faking a packet >to trick one end into believing the other has started; special script >command to coerce ppp into packet mode? If this is your problem, add set openmode active to your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf (or type it by hand!) and ppp will initiate the protocol exchange.