From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 16:37:44 2003 Return-Path: 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 872EE16A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 376CC43FAF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:37:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from humbaba@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 17949 invoked by uid 65534); 11 Sep 2003 23:37:41 -0000 Received: from A1643.pppool.de (EHLO gmx.net) (213.6.22.67) by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 12 Sep 2003 01:37:41 +0200 Message-ID: <3F610757.9070909@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 01:37:59 +0200 From: "humbaba@gmx.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: user-ppp faster then pppd ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:37:44 -0000 >The difference is too small to be meaningful. when you have 56k modem and ~4.5KB throughput 0.5KB can make a big difference >The change means that the second connection traveled over wires that were slightly noisier, or >slightly busier, or one of a hundred other possibilities. The odds that >there is a difference in connection speeds caused by a difference between >ppp and pppd lie somewhere between zero and null. I tried it several times and got the same results, therefore it must be caused by the diffrence between ppp and pppd. Thanks