=09You cannot perform demand dial ppp under NetBSD unless you have a
=09statically allocacted local IP address.

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Definition of the day:
'A moot point': Something open to debate... _not_ an irrelevant point.
(It would be preferrable if more of the world could grasp the above)

On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Patryk [iso-8859-2] =A3ogiewa wrote:

> Napisane 12-Sty-98 przez Ignatios Souvatzis:
> >Hi Patryk,
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> >> Is there a way to configure NetBSD's pppd to dial out on demand?
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> >Yes. Its fully described in the pppd man page.
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> Yes. I am sorry for not being specific enough the first time. I simply
> remembered that I had problems with that. Then I configured IRIX to do
> the job and forgot what the problems were. Now i did the whole setup
> again (as described in the man page) and found out that I can not dial
> out when the 'demand' option is passed to the pppd. It says that 'demand
> dialing requires remote IP...' The problem is that I know neither remote
> nor local PPP IP before making connection. Local IP is being assigned
> dynamically by one of the communication servers I dial to and remote is
> one of those servers's.
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> Any clues?
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