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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: iijppp and kernel ppp device
Date: 24 Jul 1995 12:18:06 +0200
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Phil Taylor <phil@zipmail.co.uk> wrote:
>I would be interested to hear comments on the state of pppd, as when
I posted >an article some months ago (I was using 2.0R) J"org i think
it was told me that >pppd was broken and that was why the generic
kernel had no ppp devices >configured.
>Has this now been fixed ?????
Any known problems with it have been fixed.
The reason that the GENERIC kernels don't have ppp devices is that
iijppp has been considered to be easier to use for the installation
disks, and the kernel had to be made as small as possible without
losing required (for the installation) features in order to fit on the
installation floppy.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)