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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> Freebsd 2.2.1-RELEASE
> ppp 2.2 patch level 0beta3 and 2.3 patch level 0beta3
> 
> My provider upgraded their Bay routers last week and now I can not use
> ppp on Freebsd with a static IP address. Mickysoft and linux works so I'm
> hung out to dry. I can use a dynamic IP though. Bay is saying that Freebsd
> is messed up. Debug doesn't show anything special in the LCP negotiation..
> tried turning off and on every switch in the man page for pppd and tried 
> turning off tcp/ip extensions in sysconfig.
> 
> I tried compiling the new pppd (2.3 which supports dial on demand) but it
> does the same thing. I did discover that the make process specifically for
> freebsd does not work and munges the system src tree. Has anyone got a valid
> port for the new pppd?
> 
> Please cc me in email since I don't get this list. Any suggestions or help
> or fixes for my ppp problem are very welcome. I don't want to load linux and
> really don't want to find another provider just because of this so I get
> to learn slip this week (yay!).

You could try user-level ppp.  There's a pretty recent copy at
http://www.freebsd.org/~brian.

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