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From: fmayhar@acsc.com (Frank Mayhar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: On-demand dialup PPP for *BSD?
Date: 22 Nov 1993 20:45:16 -0800
Organization: Advanced Computing Systems Company
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I will soon (hopefully) have a need for on-demand dialup PPP between my
home system and the one at work.  I'm aware of Morningstar PPP, which
does what I need, but it's too expensive for my personal budget, and
doesn't directly support either Free- or NetBSD.  I've found the Dialup
PPP package, version 2.3, which looks like exactly what I need, but it
runs only under SunOS.  Has anyone ported, or is anyone currently porting,
this package to either FreeBSD or NetBSD?  I would prefer FreeBSD, since
that's what I run at home, but a NetBSD port would be acceptable, since a
port from there to FreeBSD should be fairly simple.

If someone has ported the package, great!  Is it available yet?

If not (as I strongly suspect is the case), and someone is currently
involved in porting it, could you contact me?  Perhaps we can coordinate
our efforts.

Thanks!
-- 
Frank Mayhar  fmayhar@acsc.com
	      Advanced Computing Systems Company
	      3000 S. Robertson Blvd. Suite 400, LA, CA 90034   (310) 815-4858