re: Tried to compile pppd but no luck

[matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>]

   >    This is getting more confusing :(. Maybe it means FreeBSD 3.x and lower
   >    didn't support PPP natively..
   > 
   > freebsd have changed preferred ppp implemetation from the normal pppd
   > that everyone else (heh) uses to their userland ppp that uses tun(4)
   > instead of ppp(4) i think?
   
   ok I just hope they didn't change the /dev/ppp interface.


oh, my point is that (i think that) the userland ppp doesn't use
/dev/ppp but /dev/tun... ie, it doesn't require any in-kernel ppp
support, just uses the generic "tunnel" (tun(4)) device...


.mrg.