From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 4: 3: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fmdb.c3.hu (dial-209.digitel2002.hu [213.163.2.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33F9537B90A for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 04:02:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mico@bsd.hu) Received: (qmail 721 invoked by uid 1004); 21 Jul 2000 11:01:00 -0000 From: "Miklos Niedermayer" Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:01:00 +0200 To: "Roberto Nunnari, AGIE" Cc: isdn@freebsd.org, questions Subject: Re: kernel ppp vs. user ppp Message-ID: <20000721130100.A689@bsd.hu> Mail-Followup-To: Niedermayer Miklos , "Roberto Nunnari, AGIE" , isdn@freebsd.org, questions References: <397822F7.275EF796@agie.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <397822F7.275EF796@agie.ch>; from roberto.Nunnari@agie.ch on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:16:23AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0 - The Power to Serve Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Roberto Nunnari, AGIE: > Can anybody tell me what's the difference (from the user > point of view/performance/security/stability) between > user ppp and kernel ppp when using it over isdn or modem? I'm using user level PPP in some FreeBSD ISDN-ppp routers. It's *much* easier to set up than SPPP or PPPD, and has lots of features like dial/alive filters. I highly recommend it for ISDN applications rather than SPPP, for. eg AFAIK SPPP doesn't support VJ compression, etc. Bye Mico To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message