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From: willey@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Getting PPP Links up and Running
Date: 29 Dec 1995 19:27:35 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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Curt Sampson (curt@portal.ca) wrote:
: Well, this is an old question, I know, but I once long ago had PPP
: dialing out nicely on my NetBSD 1.0 system, and now that I've come
: back to a point where I need it again, I can't get it to work
: anymore. For some reason I just can't get a chat script to reliably
: dial. I've mucked about a bit with CLOCAL settings, but to no avail.

: Does anyone have any instructions for doing this?

Make sure you have the "local" flag set in /etc/ttys on that tty that you
are using:

tty00   "/usr/libexec/getty std.19200"  vt100 on secure local

Now, you will want to change the "on" to "off" because this entry is for a
terminal, not a dialout.  Also, delete "secure".  ;-)

Mark