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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 10:58:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Newell <mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us>
To: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
cc: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: PPPD vs. iijppp ??
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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Jay D. Nelson wrote:

jdn> I don't know which is better -- but -- pppd (kernel ppp) has worked all
jdn> the time, everytime. I wish I could use ijppp for the convenience. (It
jdn> works with Cisco's but not with others.) I suspect the tunnel driver,
jdn> e.g., hosts that understand it work -- those that don't can't, but I
jdn> don't know. Since pppd works, I haven't fussed with it.

I've personally tried to use both.  I wanted to use ijppp because it
supports predictor-1 compression and some tests showed better than 2x
throughput on my ISDN line.  However ijppp also _consistantly_
disconnected whenever I did a large FTP, so I eventually switched back to
pppd.  When I requested help from the list [this was about a year ago;
I've not retried since... :-)] most of the messages came back with "Yeah,
we had that problem too so we switched to pppd."  So I did too... :-)!!

Much obliged,

Mike

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