From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 21:29:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA01361 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 21:29:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01356 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 21:29:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA24616; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 22:31:47 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 22:31:47 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601230531.WAA24616@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: Keith Leonard , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ppp problem In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > ps ax | grep pppd | grep -v grep > > pppd connect 'chat -v "" ATDT*server number here* CONNECT ""\ > ^^^^ > > Ack. Did you try ppp? (your name is familiar, I can't remember) > > Your chat script will work as is with ppp, for the most part. (May have > to be separated because of the way ppp does it) It will also work for pppd. "ppp is a finicky beast." *grin* The nice thing about pppd and chat, is that you can set debug on it and get a nice blow-for-blow log of the chat interactions. > Nice thing about ppp is that you can do `set debug chat' and get a nice > blow-for-blow log of the chat interaction. > > I would really suggest using ppp if possible, pppd is a finicky beast. I would really suggest continuting to use pppd, since ppp isn't always stable. [ This was all intended as humor. No offense should be taken. Humor, see the smileys. :) :) :) :) :) :) ] In any case, there is no clear-cut answer as to using ppp vs. pppd. As the summary that was given a while back gave, 'ppp' is generally easier to setup, but 'pppd' tends to be more stable over the long-haul and uses less resourcs. What I'd *really* love is if someone who champion ppp and fix all it's bugs. :) Nate