From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 12 09:43:32 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA24294 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:43:32 -0700 Received: from mpp.com ([204.157.201.242]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA24288 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:43:29 -0700 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA00253; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:42:13 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199506121642.LAA00253@mpp.com> Subject: Re: GENERIC kernel & some basic UNIX pointers To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:42:12 -0500 (CDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199506121341.XAA22419@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 12, 95 11:11:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1475 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Mike Pritchard stands accused of saying: > > Since a lot of potential new FreeBSD users probably are using PPP/SLIP > > through some type of ISP, the GENERIC configuration file should contain > > PPP by default. If we need a smaller kernel for the boot floppy, then > > there should be a "BOOTFLP" configuration instead. The installation > > should start with the BOOTFLP kernel, but one of the loaded distributions > > (bindist? or whatever) should provide a more fully configured kernel. > > E.g. the GENERIC kernel. This should be done for 2.1. > > The PPP faq should actually mention the user-mode PPP and the tun0 device > which is obviously still in the bootfloppy kernel. > > IMHO this is _much_ easier to use from my (limited) exposure than pppd > for the 'average user'. True, but we have people coming from 2.0, which didn't have the user-mode PPP. So if they already setup PPP, it was the kernel-mode PPP. Someone who actually runs the user-mode stuff should write up something to be added to the PPP FAQ. When I got my kernel-mode PPP link working a couple of weeks back, I didn't run across any real gotchas or anything that I could see causing headaches for the "average user". I think that all of the problems I had involved installing a new modem at the same time. Has anyone compared the two? Is one faster/less overhead/whatever? -- Mike Pritchard mpp@legarto.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"