From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 0:49: 1 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 C815A37B401 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B03343E65 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:48:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g727mDF72333; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:48:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: karl agee Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: user ppp vs. kernel ppp In-Reply-To: <1028530682.314.22.camel@enterprise.workgroup> Message-ID: <20020802004353.K45362-100000@pogo.caustic.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 4 Aug 2002, karl agee wrote: > So what is the difference btwn user ppp and kernel ppp?? I've read the > docs and not sure what to make of them.... userland and kernel controls, basically. the userland ppp is a little easier to deal with. > am i correct that user ppp is now the "official" version?? yes. it has been for a while. > Right now, I use kppp to dialout, works fine..which does it use?? probably kernel ppp, since that's pretty much the same as the one used in linux. > Asking this mainly 'cause I am reading up on packet filtering firewalls > using ipfw and ipfilter. user ppp has its own firewalling built in. read ppp(8) for details on how to set that up. there's alot of info in that man page about how it works. you can, of course, still use IPFilter if you want, but that just creates some extra overhead in dealing with the already slow ppp frames. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message