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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.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!newsfeeder.ust.hk!nntp.hk.super.net!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 25 Jan 1996 16:16:12 GMT Organization: CATENA Enterprise Technologies Lines: 43 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4e8acc$eik@diablo.cet.co.jp> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4dbun0$j2f@park.uvsc.edu> <4dg90i$6le@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <4dh42v$rnv@park.uvsc.edu> <4djgkh$kgn@Jester.CC.MsState.Edu> <4dkqa7$27e@park.uvsc.edu> <30FEFA1F.66C9@hydra.acs.uci.edu> <4dp7kh$8v8@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: a06m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2053 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2211 comp.unix.solaris:57871 comp.unix.aix:69207 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: [snip] >The "best" user-to-net attachment mechanisms I have seen are: > >1) Morningstar's PPP, which has all the bells and whistles > and is sold commercially for a lot of platforms > >2) BSDI's mslip, which can do channel bonding to turn 2 > 28.8 modems into a 56k line (ftp.bsdi.com) > >3) FreeBSD/etc.'s ijppp, which is a user space implementation > of PPP with all the bells and whistles. > >All of these could probably be ported to Solaris (which supports >an IP tunneling device, I believe), but other than the first, I >don't think they have been. > > >Most bundled PPP's aren't very happy with Microsoft's illegal >option negotiations, which were rejected by the IETF. MorningStar PPP now supports Micro$oft's illegal option negotiations. As pompous as MS was about this I must agree that it makes it a little easier for clueless Win95 users to connect. It negotiates both primary and secondary DNS server addresses and WINS server addresses. All they need to know to connect is a phone number, a userid, and a password. Get the AUTOPPP detect code in mgetty and you can make the terminal server display a login prompt but exec pppd if the tell-tale PPP pattern is received instead of a userid. mgetty did much more than I needed so I put the simple AUTOPPP state machine into a simple getty and it works great. -- Mike Hancock michaelh@cet.co.jp