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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news1.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP and or SLIP, connection problem, ijppp, xearth, X11 Date: 22 Oct 1995 01:30:41 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <46c3bh$pe1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <46aqqj$su@sydney1.world.net> <814293888.22580@pencotts.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> wrote: >The ppp driver was removed from the standard configuration (AFIK) because you >can do almost anything that ppp + pppd does by using tun + iijppp instead, >plus the iijppp does dial-on-demand and is much easier to set up. Having two >different drivers for the same job makes the kernel more bloated, wasting >valuable >RAM, making it a tighter fit on the install media etc. etc. The only reason to remove it was to make the installation kernel smaller. I think, for an ISP pppd(8) might have some merits over ppp(8), for example less context switches. Anyway, somebody who's going to operate an ISP is exepected to have enough basic knowledge on how to reconfigure and rebuild a kernel. I'm sometimes under the impression that various people with a very poor background knowledge are attempting to going commercial by just simply abusing the free-of-charge Usenet service. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)