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From: lbw@cougar.com (Len Wilson)
Subject: Re: PPP Connect's then...
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George Josol (spyguy@inreach.com) wrote:
> I'm having difficulty getting my BSD PPP to work. I followed the
> tutorial that's available at freebsd.org. My problem is once it dials
> out and appears to login to my ISP (I get the ok prompts) I then
> shell out and initiate a ping or whois command. 

> My cursor just carraige returns to the next line, nada. I can ^C
> out of it and back to my shell. When I do a ps -e it shows that my PPP
> is running.

Do you have the command, 'set openmode active' in your script?

LW