On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Rex McMaster wrote:

> It seems that the unit number is allocated to pppd by an ioctl
> (PPPIOCGUNIT), and with random disconnections and re-connections it
> appears to be possible to end up with the unit numbers reversed.
> 
>   ... or am I missing something?

fredb@handy-> grep ppp /etc/rc.conf
ppp_peers="enteract laptop"		# /etc/ppp/peers to call

The isp is set up with "demand", and the laptop "silent persist".
Works for me.