by chance, does anyone know...

[m.w.chang]

yes. I hadn't used it since Openlinxu 1.3 despite all the articles I 
found via search engines about "demand dial ppp"

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 May 2002 21:17 pm, Bill Day wrote:
> Gee, the demand dialing stuff has been in pppd for several years.  And I don't 
> think pppd ever needed diald....   but if you wanted demand dialing than you 
> had to use diald.
> 
> The demand dialing of pppd  (or the persistent dialing - keep the line up) 
> work just fine.
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