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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PPP support in FreeBSD
Date: 01 Oct 1993 22:46:21 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: mori@solomon.technet.sg's message of Tue, 28 Sep 1993 23:22:04 GMT


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.