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From: tjacobs@vaultbbs.com (Thomas R. Jacobs, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any ISPs provide PPP support?
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:28:47 GMT
Organization: Vault Information Services
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risner@stdio.com (James Risner) wrote:
>Sandip Srivastava (ssriva1@umbc.edu) wrote:
>: Do you know of any ISPs out there that provide PPP support for connecting
>: using FreeBSD?
...
>3) get a nice serial board.
>The only question I don't have an answer to provide is "which serial board?"
>I have Digiboards, but they are slow and prone to have frozen ports.
>I have a Parallex board but no drivers.
>I have an Equinox board also with out drivers.
>I hear Cyclades(sp?) is nice, which is the "best" in most people's minds?
We use Boca, and have never had a problem. Never could get the
Digiboard to work, so returned it in favor of the Boca. Worked great
right out of the box, no additional drivers needed (you use the sio
driver).
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