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From: Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Remove obsolete Network Communications  from base release
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>Number:         144517
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Remove obsolete Network Communications  from base release
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 07 01:40:00 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:    Sun Mar 07 02:34:15 UTC 2010
>Last-Modified:  Sun Mar 07 02:34:15 UTC 2010
>Originator:     Aiza
>Release:        8.0 release
>Organization:
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>Environment:
>Description:
Network Communication Kernel PPP and SLIP are obsolete.

Kernel PPP was rewritten and became User PPP back in release 2.1 I believe. It has only been carried forward for backward compatability. 

Slip was never embraced by the ISP community from the very start. In todays world where cable and dsl access is the norm dial up access is hard to find and slip access is not offered at all. 
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>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed  
State-Changed-By: brucec 
State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 7 02:32:06 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
The kernel SLIP and PPP drivers and associated utilities were removed from  
the base system in April 2009 in r190751. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=144517 
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