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>Chapter 9. Overview of what has to be done to get PPP working as a client</TD
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>9.15. Maintaining a permanent connection to the net with <I
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>pppd</I
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>If you are fortunate enough to have a semi permanent connection to the net and
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would like to have your machine automatically redial your PPP connection if it
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>Configure PPP such that it can be started by the <TT
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> user by issuing the
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