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Date:      Sat, 03 Oct 1998 19:13:44 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Cc:        Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is PPP now being used by all 3 *BSD's? 
Message-ID:  <15999.907467224@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Oct 1998 18:02:45 PDT." <199810040102.SAA24516@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> 

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> 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.

- Jordan

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