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Joni Rathbun <jrathbun@ednet1.osl.or.gov> wrote:
> I use FreePPP (ConfigPPP) for local dial-up access. It likes to dial
> up on its own. Last night, for example, I had a successful logon,
> worked online for awhile, then quit all of my net applications,
> selected CLOSE on configPPP, put it away, and went to bed. When I
> got up this morning, I discovered that it had started itself up
> in the middle of the night and logged on.
>
> It will also decide to dial-up when I'm already online using
> my terminal program. And, of course, it wrecks my current connection,
> causing me to have to hang up and logon again.
>
> This is the latest version. The previous version would redial on me when I
> didn't expect it, but only after I had put it away after an unsuccessful
> logon attempt (busy lines, etc) - or if I had not closed it properly.
>
> I have gone in and set it not to redial automatically - but that hasn't
> solved the problem.
>
> Am I missing something obvious here or is this a special feature of
> configppp?