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From: cander@cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD pppd <--> Win95 Dial-up
Date: 3 Nov 1995 03:44:05 GMT
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Charles Anderson (cander@cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:

: Does anyone know what options one needs to configure in either pppd or
: Win95 dial-up networking to get the two to talk?  

I got it to work, finally.  The trick was the ISP was using the '-ip'
flag to pppd to disable IP address negotation.  Evidentally, Win95
doesn't like that.  Funny thing is that MacPPP and Novel LWP had no
problem with it, but then again they weren't plug and play.  :-)

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Charles Anderson
IEOR Graduate Student