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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate 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 Lines: 41 Message-ID: <28ie62$kss@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CE37Kt.A0E@newsserver.technet.sg> <MYCROFT.93Oct1184621@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu 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 -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me