Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 12:18:59 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <21323.9506071118@thor.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199506052155.OAA24434@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 5, 95 02:55:18 pm
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In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who said > > > > > jkh 95/06/05 14:50:44 > > > > Modified: sys/i386/conf GENERIC > > Log: > > Take ppp out of the GENERIC kernel to save space. > > We don't use it from GENERIC. > > You just broke my 5 station test bed :-(. I use ppp lines and > GENERIC kernels in it as all machines go out of here with a serial > port in them. [Running ppp at 115k baud is fine for what I need > it for and saves me a pile of ethernet cards!]. > > Though the floppy install stuff may not support ppp, the GENERIC > kernel sure should!!! > Umm, what am I missing here? Are you removing PPP from the installation process, if so that's very bad news for me. Guess I'm going to have to learn about dial-up connections pretty quickly :-) When you connect to Demon in the UK you never know which machine will be at the other end so I can't set the ip address for the other end of my slip link. Using PPP is the only way I get all this to work since PPP finds out what the address at the other end is and sets up the routing table automatically. How to I set up SLIP to work with Demon, Gary? Actually, I run into other problems with SLIP, after running slattach nothing happens, I get a message "waiting for carrier on cua00", which is odd because the modem is definitely connected to the Demon account and I don't get this problem with PPP. I really miss my JANET connection, hope we get our leased line at work soon :-) -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)
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