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Old 20th April 2010
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First of all, the 8.0 release has dropped support for pppd more commonly called kernal-ppp and slip. They have been removed from the 8.0 system. It takes time for changes like this to filter down through the handbook. So you will still see them documented in the handbook, which is in error.

What you want to use is user-ppp.

Now the second problem. In 8.0 the driver for the serial port has changes from sio to uart. This is documented in only one place, The release notes.


From the 8.0 release notes is the following
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html

[amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have been renamed with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN.

Your device value of (/dev/cuaa0, cuaa1) should now be (/dev/cuau0, cuau1).

A more user-friendly explanation of configuring user-ppp is in the Install guide. Be aware that it has not been updated to the uart device names yet.
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