On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 04:30:18AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Why not run pppd from the "normal" place in startup?  Just define the 
> ppp peer in your rc.conf, and /etc/netstart will take care of the rest.

Hm.  Never knew of that. :-)

> And, if you use the persist option pppd will bring the connection back
> up if it should ever go down.

I have tried using persist before and noticed that sometimes, when the
connection went down, pppd wasn't able to get it working unless I killed
and restarted pppd - this is why I want every connection to have a
"fresh" copy of pppd.

  -jm