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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: should I convert from netbsd0.9 to freebsd to get PPP support?
Date: 01 Oct 1993 22:49:29 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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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.