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From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis)
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Subject: Re: pppd vs ijppp
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> What are the real advantages of ijppp over pppd, and is anyone integrating
> them into the kernel pppd? Its pretty stupid to run ppp in user space just to
> get a couple of intiialization features.

Actually, in the long run it would be nice to get the bugs fixed in the
user-land version.  I would *prefer* the user-land version to the kernel
version except for it's instability, and I don't have time to track down
the bugs in it since the application is critical to my work, and pppd
works.

Bloating the kernel with the features of user-land ppp is not a good
thing.  Also, it's *very* easy to debug the user-land version where the
kernel version is *much* harder to debug.  No reboots necessary. ;)


Nate