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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.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: should I convert from netbsd0.9 to freebsd to get PPP support? Date: 1 Oct 1993 23:24:34 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <28ie7i$ksv@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <RAM.93Sep29105407@xor.epi.wisc.edu> <MYCROFT.93Oct1184929@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <MYCROFT.93Oct1184929@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, Charles Hannum <mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote: > >In article <RAM.93Sep29105407@xor.epi.wisc.edu> ram@xor.epi.wisc.edu >(Ram Bhamidipaty) writes: > > I have a Netbsd-0.9 system running that's doing just fine. But it > does not have PPP support (as far as I can tell) [...] > >I thought we put it in 0.9, but perhaps my memory is bad. At any >rate, it is certainly in NetBSD-current. > >HOWEVER, that version of PPP (the same as is in FreeBSD) is very >buggy. I would recommend that you don't use it. The version of PPP in FreeBSD has been mightily fixed, and is NOT buggy. The original version of PPP that was integrated was highly buggy, but NOT the current version. 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