Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 22:39:12 +0000 (GMT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: jwb@fore.com, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp and static IP (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970603223145.6660B-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <2910.865365591@time.cdrom.com>
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I do happen to have some extra eval Bays here, and I think I may be able to set up an interface as RS232 and throw a modem w/PPP on it... These are running SW rel. 11.01. It'd be a long-distance call to NYC, but if anyone wants to play, they are welcome. Charles On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > This is a compatibility issue between a Bay release and seems to be unique > > to freebsd pppd. Bay claims the freebsd crew screwed up. I thought you might > > like to know. If I am wrong on either assumption please accept my sincere > > apologies. I'm a user, not a developer (or even programmer for that matter). > > We do like to know about such things, but I don't see how we have any > hope of actually doing anything about this without a lot more debugging > information. > > It's sort of like calling up tech support and saying "my computer > doesn't work." They ask "what do you mean? how?" and you answer "I > don't know, it just doesn't work. Thought you guys would want to > know, that's all." Things can only go rapidly downhill from there, > you dig? > > That's why I asked you to try out userland ppp first so that we could > at least narrow down the behavior to pppd or not. That's the first > level of coarse adjustment, lacking much detail about the actual failure > with pppd. We certainly can't afford to go out and buy a Bay Networks > device, so I'm genuinely puzzled as to what you expected us to accomplish > with so little information. :-( > > Jordan >
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