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From: ram@xor.epi.wisc.edu (Ram Bhamidipaty)
Subject: should I convert from netbsd0.9 to freebsd to get PPP support?
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Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison
Date: 29 Sep 1993 15:54:07 GMT


I have a Netbsd-0.9 system running that's doing just fine. But it does
not have PPP support (as far as I can tell) and I can't run SLIP to my
machines at work...so I'm faced with the choice of waiting for Netbsd
to get PPP support or converting to FreeBSD which reportedly has PPP
support (and "great" com drivers I'm told). I would really rather just
add some package to netbsd to make things work, but this does not seem
to be an option.

I suppose I would also have to rebuild all the netbsd-0.9 programs
for freebsd.

Any advise or suggestions?
-Ram
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