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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP Autodial
Date: 8 Jan 1996 13:00:39 GMT
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delpi@vivid.net (David M. Davis) writes:

> My ppp.conf file is exactly that found in section 11.1.5 of the
> FreeBSD Handbook.  When I type dial provider on the command line the
> response is-
>  
> dial OK!
>     time passes
> login failed.
> 
> The modem does not appear to be hit at all.

That's what typically happens for me when i forget to add a dial
script to the ppp.conf.  Mine looks like

 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" ATE1Q0 OK-AT-OK \\dATDT\\\T TIMEOUT 60 CONNECT"
 set login "TIMEOUT 30 login:-\\r-login: \\U word: \\P"

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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