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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! PPP new to unix networking1
Date: 2 Jan 1997 13:26:22 GMT
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brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote:

> Maybe it's worth having a timeout in iijppp that either suggests that
> nobody has started negotiations or that starts negotiations despite
> openmode ?  Any votes ?

Have a look at the `passive' vs. `silent' options of pppd(8).  I think
`passive' would be the best default.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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