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On Thu, 17 May 2012 13:37:49 +0200
Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On 17/05/2012 08:27, Peter Barnes wrote:
> > I would like to use BSD but I use KPPP to connect to my ISP. Is
> > anyone working on KPPP to include it with BSD? According to
> > Distrowatch no BSD O/S's have KPPP
> 
> KPPP is just a KDE-based GUI wrapper around the OS provided PPP
> functionality.  At a guess, the only reason it isn't available on
> FreeBSD is that FreeBSD pppd uses different configuration syntax to
> Linux, and no-one has yet written appropriate support.

It's because FreeBSD finally dropped pppd in 8-current, and KPPP doesn't
support user ppp.