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Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:21:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Fiore, William" <Fiowi01@mail.cai.com>
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Subject: Re: ppp or pppd - which should I use
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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Fiore, William wrote:

> man pages and other documention describe a user process ppp
> and a pppd which requires kernel support.
> 
> which you I use to connect my fbsd to my ISP.
> 
> should I use the ppp to get the scripts setup and then use pppd????

ppp is the easiest to manipulate since it has a command-line interface. 
pppd requires some setup but performs better. 

Check out http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major