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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!cat-ufg.de!root From: wiserner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de Subject: Re: should I convert from netbsd0.9 to freebsd to get PPP support? Message-ID: <CEA89z.7CM@cat-ufg.de> Sender: root@cat-ufg.de (Charlie Root) Nntp-Posting-Host: blurps Organization: TU-Muenchen References: <RAM.93Sep29105407@xor.epi.wisc.edu> <MYCROFT.93Oct1184929@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1993 18:20:23 GMT Lines: 24 In article <MYCROFT.93Oct1184929@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: |> |> 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. It might be that the version is buggy but I am using it since last year and the version from Paulus Mackerras ( don't remember the name exactly ) is the best available. I use it since a few weeks , sometimes for hours and there is no serious problem . You might need to disable some compressions ( options -pc -ac ) if you have problems transmitting from NetBSD to sun. However there is enough compressed ... Sooo .. if you have time ( the installation isn't quite straitforward .. ) Just test it.. I can speak only for NetBSD but i heard that the freebsd-implementation is the same. |> mfg B.Wiserner