Hi Jukka,

you wrote in <199608081147.OAA08683@pyy.jmp.fi>:
> I want to replace getty with pppd.  What options do I have to specify to
> get login/passwd authentication (I don't want any fancy stuff, just that
> the client has to supply the same login name and password as in
> /etc/passwd).

AFAIK you can't use "pppd" this way.

> Is there an option which would make pppd monitor the connection and drop
> and restart it if it broken?  Sometimes my PPP link just hangs - the
> modems are still off-hook and everything looks ok, but no data is sent
> to the modem.

I wrote a watchdog script which does this job. If you want to have it tell
me.

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Matthias Scheler
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