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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>,
        Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Is PPP now being used by all 3 *BSD's?
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In the last episode (Oct 03), Jordan K. Hubbard said:
> > NetBSD uses in-kernel PPP, not userland PPP.  pppd(8) does the PPP
> > connection setup, and control messages, and stuff... but framing et
> > al are all handled in the kernel by if_ppp.c
> > 
> > Note that the PPP package we use also supports demand-dial and whatnot.
> 
> Hmmm.  Sounds like we really need to integrate NetBSD's kernel ppp
> code sometime. :-) If nothing else, it would greatly assist us in
> creating stand-alone ppp router floppies.

ummm

They're already the same code, Jordan :)  There's pretty much one pppd
version, based at ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/ .  2.3.5 was
brought into both 2.2.* and 3.* in June, and claims to do demand-dial
and filtering like user-ppp.  It still requires an external chat
program, and doesn't have interactive/online configuration like
user-ppp does though.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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