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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!dubhe.anu.edu.au!sirius.anu.edu.au!not-for-mail From: paulus@cs.anu.edu.au (Paul Mackerras) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: PPP, is it available for BSD? Date: 2 Aug 1993 14:50:55 +1000 Organization: Computer Science Department, ANU, Australia Lines: 19 Message-ID: <23i6ffINN5tr@sirius.anu.edu.au> References: <1993Jul29.210657.13159@prepress.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.anu.edu.au Bob Costa <costa@benton.prepress.com> writes: >I've heard that PPP is superior to SLIP. >Does anybody know if it's available for BSD and if so what state it's in? It sure is. You can get ppp-1.3.tar.Z by anonymous FTP from bsd.coe.montana.edu, or alternatively from dcssoft.anu.edu.au:/pub/paulus. This contains ports for SunOS and for 386BSD. The 386BSD ppp network interface driver is very buggy, so if you want to use it on 386BSD, get ppp-1.3-fixes.tar.Z from dcssoft.anu.edu.au:/pub/paulus as well, which contains a modified ppp network interface driver which works quite well, and will also run on NetBSD and other Net/2-derived systems. If you do use the modified network driver, let me know if you find any problems. Paul Mackerras paulus@cs.anu.edu.au Dept. of Computer Science Australian National University