On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:37:42PM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote: > > I believe that FreeBSD has a variant of the same pppd. I don't know how > out of sync it is with the upstream sources, though. IIRC, I believe > there are two or three different ways to do PPP on FreeBSD. > > If porting Debian's pppd package turns out to be unfeasible or inferior > for some reason, one of the other methods might be made to work.
I just checked debian's ppp sources and it supports FreeBSD's kernel. I haven't tried, but in a quick look seems like adding "GNU/FreeBSD" to ./configure would get it working (stealing kernel options from "FreeBSD" and user options from "Linux") In any case, for those of you interested in FreeBSD's ppp: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.html But i really think we should avoid FreeBSD's user sources when we have a working alternative: - with debian's ppp, Glibc support is maintained for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD's kernel support is maintained for FreeBSD system. - with FreeBSD's ppp, FreeBSD's kernel support is maintained natively but we'd have to maintain Glibc support ourselves. -- Robert Millan
