Bug 144517 - Remove obsolete Network Communications from base release
Summary: Remove obsolete Network Communications from base release
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2010-03-07 01:40 UTC by aiza
Modified: 2010-03-07 02:34 UTC (History)
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Description aiza 2010-03-07 01:40:00 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Bruce Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-03-07 02:32:06 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

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