Re: SFBA Linux PPP ISPs -- please now that he has moved here?

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From: Andrew Wallace
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <5g6qs9$a2q@shell3.ba.best.com>, mojo@shell3.ba.best.com (Morris Jones) writes:
>James Salsman <jsalsman@bovik.org> writes:
>>Sadly, at this time I can not reccommend my own ISP, 
>>Best Communication Corporation, of Mountain View, because 
>>while they appear to carry my Linux PPP TCP packets, 
>>they do not yet carry my Linux PPP UDP or ICMP packets.  
>>Perhaps this message will prompt them to rectify the situation.
>
>I'm afraid that doesn't make any sense.  They certainly transported my
>Linux packets of every variety before I switched to another provider
>to get ISDN a month ago.


I was sort of wondering about that statement, too... I have been using Best for
almost 2 years now, and the only thing I use to dial it up is a Linux box running
PPP (severral different kernels)...

andy



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From: andyw@informix.com (Andrew Wallace)
Subject: Re: SFBA Linux PPP ISPs -- please now that he has moved here?
Date: 1997/03/13
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