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Subject: Re: ppp and static IP (fwd) 
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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
>