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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP
Date: 4 Sep 1995 16:06:39 +0200
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Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>Use FreeBSD 2.0.5 or later and /usr/sbin/ppp - it fully supports dynamic
>address negotiation.

pppd does also support it.  It's part of the IPCP layer.
-- 
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. ;-)