From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 19: 9:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDEA37B401; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C46543E75; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:09:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbsd@pacbell.net) Received: from atlas ([64.160.45.6]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H2N00KULY07BL@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net>; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:09:43 -0700 (PDT) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= Subject: Re: What kind of PPP connection do you have? In-reply-to: <20020914050638.GB2474@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-X-Sender: mikko@atlas.home To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <20020918190729.Q306-100000@atlas.home> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I'm currently revising my book "The Complete FreeBSD". The new > edition should be out in the bookstores in a couple of months. Right > now I'm revising the chapter on PPP setup, which was written in 1997. > Since then, the ISP landscape has changed dramatically, and I suspect > that large parts of the chapter are no longer relevant. I'd like your > feedback on the following issues: > > 1. What kind of authentication do you use? Please don't reply if > it's PAP or CHAP; I think that's almost universal. I'm just > interested if anybody is using anything else (like a UNIX login, > for example). Haven't used a login chat script with ppp for at least five years... :) > 2. Do you use user PPP or kernel PPP? I'd like answers in each case > here, please. I note that other books have decided to describe > only one or the other, but currently I think there's a reason for > both. User PPP. Hmm... can kernel PPP do PPPoE? /Mikko Mikko Työläjärvi____________________________________________mik2o@telia.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message