From owner-freebsd-isdn Sat Dec 23 8:15: 5 2000 From owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 08:15:03 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com (mailout03.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC0337B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 08:15:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.com by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 149rK1-0000Yc-02; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:15:01 +0100 Received: from night-porter.duskware.de (520038743430-0001@[193.159.114.40]) by fmrl05.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 149rJm-0vYAcaC; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:14:46 +0100 Received: (from martin@localhost) by night-porter.duskware.de (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eBNGEei01027; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:14:40 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Husemann Message-Id: <200012231614.eBNGEei01027@night-porter.duskware.de> Subject: Re: remote ip In-Reply-To: <20001223105929.B253@speedy.gsinet> "from Gerhard Sittig at Dec 23, 2000 10:59:29 am" To: Gerhard Sittig Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:14:40 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL78 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 520038743430-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Where can I read more about the reasoning to use kernel space ppp > except for "doing what I got used to do" or "I don't care, both > suffice and one of them is smaller"? Most people use whats easier for them/what they are used to. Besides corner cases (which are subject to heavy flamewars and none at all clearly marked) there probably is no technical reason pro or cons any of these. I myself use in-kernel ppp because (1) I used to run a router with only 4 MB RAM, and spawing ppp on dial-in caused a significant delay vs. the in-kernel solution and (2) my provider charges heavily for the second channel (the only thing missing from the in-kernel stuff from my POV). For NetBSD there are other reasons, because the in-kernel version has diverged quite a bit (IPv6, ALTQ, ...) but no real world user will notice if not explicitly looking for differences. (Note that I know ~ nothing about state of affairs in FreeBSD-current nor have looked at userland ppp in detail during the last half year). Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message