On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Nick Phillips wrote:

> Use AutoPPP, like this:
> 
> /AutoPPP/ -     a_ppp   /usr/sbin/pppd call dialin
> 
> /etc/ppp/peers/dialin contains the ppp options needed for a dialin
> connection, and pppd handles all the authentication. If you tell it to
> use /etc/passwd, it can, but if you tell it to use PAP, it'll use just
> /etc/ppp/pap-secrets.
> 
> Use /etc/ppp/options for options common to all (or most of) the PPP
> connections you will use, and then the individual per-connection files
> in /etc/ppp/peers (specified as above) for the rest.

Thank you for pointing out a neat use of the call option.  Hmmm... 
maybe AutoPPP can do CHAP after all... 

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