Re: SLIP to be phased out, PPP support continues

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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:00

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In article <8a4afm$g4e$1@samba.rahul.net>,
Doug Kaufman  <dkaufman@rahul.net> wrote:
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>[...] Are there users for whom PPP is not easily set up
>on their systems? Slirp was taken out of the userbin a while ago when
>pricing for shells became the same as for ppp.

Just to clarify, this wasn't a User Bin decision--the user who
contributed slirp decided it wasn't needed anymore and thus
removed it.

IMHO, if there's a need, then someone will fill it.  To paraphrase,
necessity is the mother of User Bin contributions.  :)

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Lloyd Lim        <userbin@rahul.net>
a2i User Bin     <http://www.rahul.net/userbin/>

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Subject: Re: SLIP to be phased out, PPP support continues
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