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From: bsalai@servtech.com (Brad Salai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Getting PPP Links up and Running
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 04:26:47 -0500
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In article <4c4b7p$7u8_001@dialupS165.ici.net>, david@pencilnet.com (David
Ehrens) wrote:

> Speaking of which... is NetBSD any less ugly than various Linux distributions 
> I've tried to get PPP to work?  The fact that NetBSD is slightly more POSIX 
> compliant makes it more attractive in my mind.  I'm not asking this to
start a 
> religious debate; I just want to get PPP working reliably on a Unix platform 
> without discovering I have the wrong kernel, the wrong version, etc., etc.
> 
I speak only from experience, rather than any specific knowlege of NetBSD
PPP vs others, but I have had a lot of experience with incompatibilities
between kernels and the remainder of NetBSD, and with kernels that are
broken in one way or another, but as long as I have been able to boot, PPP
has always worked.
 
Brad

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