On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:34:34 +0000, Martin 53N 1W wrote:

vanosdol wrote:

Are there any plans to have seti/boinc automatically dial-up when 
needed for linux/x86 or does anyone have a utility program to do
this? 

There are various daemons available to transparently do this for you 
automatically.

Look up whatever "pppd" for your distro.


Good luck,
Martin

Thanks for your help, I read the pppd man page with new enthusiasm 
and got "pppd call provider demand persist" to work!! All I have to
figure out is how to get it to disconnect after transmission. 
Thanks again, any suggestion on a proper disconnect, I've tried 
"idle n, holdoff n, and nopersist?