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From: mwilley@ilx018.intel.com (Mark Willey~)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.0 pppd problem
Date: 31 May 1996 18:11:06 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ
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Curt Sampson (curt@cynic.portal.ca) wrote:
: The ppp under NetBSD 1.0 seemed to me to be broken, last time I tried
: it. You should be able to grab the source code (/usr/src/usr.sbin/pppd)
: from 1.1 or -current and compile that up and use it, though.

: I've used both the 1.1 and the -current pppds, and both work fine. I
: had very little luck getting 1.0 to work.

Although if you wait a while, 1.2 may come out.  Anybody know the
timetable on that?  I just went on a shopping spree and ordered a bunch
of hardware in anticipation of doing some of the new things that 1.2
will let me do...  (ppp, sb16 among them :)

Mark

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