From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 20 6: 6:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688CC151AB for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 06:06:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id WAA12888; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:02:33 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <379470AE.6F3CB2D2@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:50:54 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obituary Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with cvsup References: <3791BFE4.D18901D3@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> <37931C99.7038563D@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> <3793339D.297B21F3@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [cutting down cc list -- there are very few reasons to post anything to both -current and -stable] obituary wrote: > > > Why are you using kernel pppd instead of userland ppp? > > Why not? Is there some issue regarding kernel pppd that I'm not aware > of? I used kernel pppd simply because I assumed the kernel > implementation would be more efficient, and I'd had prior experience > using pppd (under Linux). Userland ppp is easier to configure, better supported, and much more feature rich. It's the prefered ppp for all but the [comparatively] few who know exactly why they want pppd. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Your usefulness to my realm ended the day you made it off Hustaing alive." -- Sun Tzu Liao to his ex-finacee, Isis Marik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message