Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!murphy.servtech.com!law.roc.servtech.com!user From: bsalai@servtech.com (Brad Salai) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Getting PPP Links up and Running Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 04:26:47 -0500 Organization: Cumpston & Shaw Lines: 23 Message-ID: <bsalai-3112950426470001@law.roc.servtech.com> References: <4btgbk$plv@cynic.portal.ca> <4c4b7p$7u8_001@dialupS165.ici.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: law.roc.servtech.com In article <4c4b7p$7u8_001@dialupS165.ici.net>, david@pencilnet.com (David Ehrens) wrote: > Speaking of which... is NetBSD any less ugly than various Linux distributions > I've tried to get PPP to work? The fact that NetBSD is slightly more POSIX > compliant makes it more attractive in my mind. I'm not asking this to start a > religious debate; I just want to get PPP working reliably on a Unix platform > without discovering I have the wrong kernel, the wrong version, etc., etc. > I speak only from experience, rather than any specific knowlege of NetBSD PPP vs others, but I have had a lot of experience with incompatibilities between kernels and the remainder of NetBSD, and with kernels that are broken in one way or another, but as long as I have been able to boot, PPP has always worked. Brad -- Stephen B. "Brad" Salai Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights Cumpston & Shaw Two State Street bsalai@servtech.com Rochester, NY 14526 (716) 325-5553