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Date:      Sat, 03 Oct 1998 18:02:45 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is PPP now being used by all 3 *BSD's? 
Message-ID:  <199810040102.SAA24516@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 19:14:57 -0400 (EDT) 
 Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net> wrote:

 > I got off my ass and am writing an article on creating a dial on demand
 > ppp router for small ofices and lans and had "FreeBSD" strewn throughout
 > but decided I would rather use "*BSD" instead to show a more united front
 > and attempt to include everyone. But I didnt know if all 3 are using the
 > brian's ppp work? I assume so but I wanted to know for sure.
 > Anyone?

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.

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