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From: rsanders@hrothgar.mindspring.com (Robert Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: portmaster
Date: 30 Nov 1994 22:25:25 -0500
Organization: Mindspring Enterprises
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In article <1994Nov29.235950.140@flapjack.ieunet.ie>,
Nick Hilliard <nick@flapjack.ieunet.ie> wrote:

>If you have a portmaster, then you can use it to handle all the SLIP/PPP
>stuff without having to bother with it on the BSD box.

>As far as I know, there are problems when using the current version of
>livingston Radius (1.13).  The next version, to be released soon, will be
>able to handle *BSD properly.

The only problem I found with it under BSDI 1.1 was a byte-order bug
that I unfortunately didn't save the patch for.  I trashed our
PortMaster and went back to using NetBlazers.  They're much more
solid.

  -- Robert