Bug 144516

Summary: [handbook] Remove obsolete sections from handbook
Product: Documentation Reporter: aiza <aiza21>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Marc Fonvieille <blackend>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description aiza 2010-03-07 01:30:00 UTC 
Section 27.3 Using Kernel PPP and section 27.7 Using SLIP are obsolete.

Kernel PPP was rewritten and became User PPP back in release 2.1 I believe. It has only be carried forward for backward computability. Remove this section or at least add statement at beginning of section saying this function is obsolete and has been replaced with User PP which is the preferred method to use.

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. Remove this section or at least add statement at beginning of section saying this function is obsolete.
Comment 1 Joe 2010-03-09 07:14:26 UTC 
See pr 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=144517


The kernel SLIP and PPP drivers and associated utilities were removed from 
the base system in April 2009 in r190751.

So now no reason to keep those 2 sections in the handbook.
Comment 2 Marc Fonvieille freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-08-19 08:56:13 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->blackend

I'll take care of it.
Comment 3 Marc Fonvieille freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-08-21 13:21:41 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

That chapter has been updated to match 8.X but I kept old parts which 
are still valid for 7.X (The Handbook covers both FreeBSD 7.X and 8.X).
Comment 4 joeb1 2013-01-13 19:18:36 UTC 
Time to revisit this PR.
7.x is now obsolete and no longer cause to keep obsolete sections from
handbook.