--- ppp-2.4.0b4.orig/scripts/README +++ ppp-2.4.0b4/scripts/README @@ -141,3 +141,17 @@ are escaped. This may need to be modified depending on the ssh (or pseudo-tty) implementation which may differ across platforms, for further optimizations. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +12. pon, poff and ip-up + +These are modified version of the pon/poff/ip-up scripts contributed by Yann +Dirson . They allow you to call "pon quick" respectively +"pon quick my-isp" to just call the provider for running you ip-up scripts in +/etc/ppp/ip-up.d. This can be useful to check for incoming/flush outgoing +mail, without the necessary delay before hangup introduced by diald or such. + +These scripts break the possibility to connect to multiple ISPs at once, so +they are included only here. +