Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:05:11 +0530 From: wahjava.ml@gmail.com (Ashish Shukla =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IA==?= =?utf-8?B?4KS24KWB4KSV4KWN4KSy?=) To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel mode PPPoE or User mode PPPoE Message-ID: <87ljzxjey8.fsf@chateau.d.lf> In-Reply-To: <20080719223434.249f4888@gumby.homeunix.com.> (RW's message of "Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:34:34 %2B0100") References: <20080719134440.GA9147@chateau.d.lf> <20080719223434.249f4888@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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--=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 RW writes: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:14:40 +0530 > ____________ _______________ Ashish Shukla <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I wanted to know if I'm using user-mode PPPoE or kernel-mode PPPoE. >> I'm following the handbook[1] to setup my PPPoE interface. Is there >> any way I can figure out this ? > If you are starting it from the standard rc.d script, you are using > user ppp. > I think kernel ppp is a legacy feature that was used before the > kernel supported tun interfaces. I don't know of any reason for still > using it. Won't you get any speed improvements with PPP connection in kernel-mode PPP as compared to user-mode PPP ? > IIRC with kernel ppp you run pppd (note the d) as root, and the > interface shows-up as ppp0; with user ppp, you run ppp as any user, > and the interface shows-up as tun0. I use 'ppp -ddial my-adsl-provider' and it creates a 'tun0' interface. So this means I'm doing user-mode PPP. Thanks Ashish -- ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiCzpMACgkQHy+EEHYuXnSOmgCdFgirCIQvuWkghdDIDPE0MvXL RmEAn0DL1B2u4+s/KNSbeg6dMuKmn0qZ =hUu+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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