> On Thu, 21 May 1998, Jake Messinger wrote:
>
> > Why is anyone still running slip? How hard is it to switch them to PPP? or
> > is there some advantage to slip?
>
> Most of them are running older implementations of Linux with broken PPP
> or other exotic platforms, which only have SLIP-support in it.
If they were running linux, it would take about 5 mins to download and
install a newer ppp source, and perhaps 20 mins or less to compile a
kernel. Youd think if they were running linux, theyd be techie enuff to
get a working ppp.
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