From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 31 9:19:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6CFA37B43B; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TMA-1.brad-x.com (static-b2-191.highspeed.eol.ca [64.56.236.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171DD43E31; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:19:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad@brad-x.com) Received: from brad-x.com (unknown [199.212.61.131]) by TMA-1.brad-x.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0274B22104E; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:21:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D480DCC.2010108@brad-x.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:18:20 -0400 From: Brad Laue User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/sbin/ppp and /usr/sbin/pppd References: <3D48015F.4020602@brad-x.com> <20020731161326.GB5957@madman.nectar.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:25:19AM -0400, Brad Brad wrote: > > >>Question about these. >> >>These two seem to serve the same purpose. /usr/sbin/ppp seems to be the >>more advanced and secure of the two, especially in light of the security >>advisory (02:32) regarding /usr/sbin/pppd. >> >>Do we need to keep it? >> >> > >yes, each ppp implementation has its pluses and minuses. pppd, for its >part, is standard around BSD and many Linux distributions, and it is >efficient as most packet processing occurs in the kernel. > >cheers, > > Can 2.4.0 work with FreeBSD? It would be good to keep current with that pppd if it's possible (although I haven't tried it). Cheers, Brad -- // -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message