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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2012 14:20:32 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KPPP
Message-ID:  <20120517142032.6e6ee4ad@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FB4E30D.1050007@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <52D7F093B01E482CA87C17CB845044B7@HP31024769640> <4FB4E30D.1050007@FreeBSD.org>

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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.




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