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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPPD
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 23:25:13 GMT
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mvanloon@vision.net.au (Mark van Loon) wrote:
>So far I have been able to set up SLIP support, but no luck with PPP.
>Every time I try to run PPPD I get the message " Soory - PPP not
>available on this system." The system was setup with a basic User file
>set. (No Kernel source etc.)

If you really want to use pppd, you will need to compile a kernel with ppp
support in it (and hence will need the kernel source).

However, you can probably do what you want with IIJPPP instead (/usr/sbin/ppp),
which it sounds like you are already using for dial-out ppp.  Try 'man ppp' for
more info.