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From: nesta@MCS.COM (Nesta Stubbs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BUGS in FreeBSD (Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD)
Date: 23 Jun 1995 10:03:54 -0500
Organization: Angeli Caduti
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In article <3sca3s$2g1@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Nesta Stubbs <nesta@MCS.COM> wrote:
>
>>...  Well one being that SLIP is not always over phone lines,
>>two being that just because it IS over a phone line doesn't mean it
>>should have a different "config" then the other network interfaces.
>
>The bug has been fixed < 24 hours after Nick's complaint appeared
>in freebsd-hackers.
>
another reason why it's great to have the source code, kudos to the
FreeBSD teams.

>This has always been possible by killing the slattach process (which
>is what you certainly want to do anyways).
>
True, but that introduces some discrepancies betwene interfaces that
arent supposed to exist.
-- 
To John Dillinger, and hope he is still alive.          |Nesta Stubbs|