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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PPP support in FreeBSD
Date: 1 Oct 1993 23:23:46 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman  MT
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Message-ID: <28ie62$kss@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <CE37Kt.A0E@newsserver.technet.sg> <MYCROFT.93Oct1184621@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <MYCROFT.93Oct1184621@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
Charles Hannum <mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>In article <CE37Kt.A0E@newsserver.technet.sg> mori@solomon.technet.sg
>(Hisao Mori) writes:
>
>   I am new to FreeBSD (and neither am I experienced in other Unix).
>   I have installed the FreeBSD with XFree86 1.3u1.  Now I wish to
>   install SLIP or PPP.
>
>According to the author, the version of PPP (1.3) currently in NetBSD
>and FreeBSD is very buggy.  Its use is not recommended.

Hmmm, methinks Charles didn't remember these messages floating by...


revision 1.3
date: 1993/09/06 19:48:58;  author: rgrimes;  state: Exp;  lines: +68 -54
Upgrade of if_ppp.c, some bug fixes (unkown) and better BPF support.
----------------------------
revision 1.2
date: 1993/08/31 05:40:40;  author: rgrimes;  state: Exp;  lines: +315 -155
Upgrade to lattest versions from:

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 10:10:34 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au>

.....


These are all in the FreeBSD sources, if not the GAMMA release they will
be in the EPSILON release, currently being built and tested even as we
speak.


Nate
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