From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 6 15:34:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06609 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 15:34:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06597 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 15:34:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA20325; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 10:04:08 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id KAA82846; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 10:04:06 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 10:04:06 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens Cc: Patrick Morris , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help - Ethernet AND Modem Message-ID: <19990207100405.M79703@freebie.lemis.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19990206011314.00927290@expresshost.com> <3.0.6.32.19990206011314.00927290@expresshost.com> <19990206173504.I79703@freebie.lemis.com> <3.0.6.32.19990206023156.0090d5c0@expresshost.com> <19990206181403.K79703@freebie.lemis.com> <36BC2309.6E7175A3@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36BC2309.6E7175A3@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 11:10:01AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 6 February 1999 at 11:10:01 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> OK. I said at the very beginning I wasn't sure what you mean by kppp. >> Now we have kppp, KPPP, ~*KPPP*~ and Kppp. You need to explain what >> you are doing. > > PMJI Greg, but "kppp" is KDE's GUI front end dialler (kind of like M$ > Dial Up Networking thing) that uses the kernel pppd rather than Brian's > user ppp. It's just confusing that the names for everything in KDE start > with "k", which in this case make it look like an abbreviation for > "kernel ppp". Thanks. Yes, it would have been of help had Patrick said that the first time round. I don't understand why anybody would want to use kppp. It looks like a lot of work for nothing. The UNIX way is to set things up so that they run automatically. > BTW, liked the joke about the drunk, never heard it before, must be an > Aussie joke I guess ;-) No, it's from Weizenbaum. As I said, there's no reason for it to be a drunk. I also heard the story told in a Yiddish context about a girl coming home from the synagogue. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message