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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!handbag.tecc.co.uk!parody.tecc.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: pppd vs user PPP Date: 18 Jan 1996 00:43:11 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4dk52v$4ik@parody.tecc.co.uk> References: <mitch4DLA4FI.Ju3@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost In article <mitch4DLA4FI.Ju3@netcom.com>, mitch goldstrom <mitch4@netcom.com> wrote: >Is there an advantage to using user ppp over pppd? There's been quite a flamewar on this subject on the -hackers mailing list. Such substantive points as I have managed to glean are as follows:- 1. pppd is generally more reliable than ppp, particularly if used for long periods of time. 2. ppp is easier to configure and setup than pppd. 3. ppp has a compression facility that is not present in pppd. Whether this offers any performance advantages when the modem has hardware compression is a moot point. 4. pppd is implemented in the kernel, ppp in user space. From an architectural and aesthetic point of view, a lot of the stuff pppd does shouldn't really be done in the kernel. >I can get pppd to come up (so far), but I still >have not gotten user ppp to ocme up on it's own. Unless you're really unhappy with pppd and are convinced that ppp will solve all your problems, I wouldn't bother changing something that works. For what it's worth, I used pppd before ppp became available and I couldn't be bothered writing, and more importantly testing, a load of new scripts, so I'm still using it now. James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'