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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: should I convert from netbsd0.9 to freebsd to get PPP support?
Date: 1 Oct 1993 23:24:34 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <MYCROFT.93Oct1184929@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
Charles Hannum <mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>In article <RAM.93Sep29105407@xor.epi.wisc.edu> ram@xor.epi.wisc.edu
>(Ram Bhamidipaty) writes:
>
>   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) [...]
>
>I thought we put it in 0.9, but perhaps my memory is bad.  At any
>rate, it is certainly in NetBSD-current.
>
>HOWEVER, that version of PPP (the same as is in FreeBSD) is very
>buggy.  I would recommend that you don't use it.

The version of PPP in FreeBSD has been mightily fixed, and is NOT
buggy.  The original version of PPP that was integrated was highly
buggy, but NOT the current version.


Nate


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