From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 12 14:55:40 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA23040 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 14:55:40 -0700 Received: from panix.com (panix.com [198.7.0.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA23034 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 14:55:39 -0700 Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by panix.com (8.6.12/8.6.12+PanixU1.0) id RAA08149 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 17:53:59 -0400 From: John Brann Message-Id: <199506122153.RAA08149@panix.com> Subject: Re: GENERIC kernel & some basic UNIX pointers To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 17:53:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 548 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk [stuff about 2 PPP styles removed] > Has anyone compared the two? Is one faster/less overhead/whatever? > I have used both on 950412-SNAP. The kernel-type gave me a large error- packet count, which I don't get with the user-type (this was bad enough to cause ftp to freeze up on occasion). This may be a vagary of the SNAP, but I have found the user-type much more reliable, and dial-on-demand rules! John. -- Difficult conversations with great figures of history: 3. Winston Churchill: "Excuse me, this is the no-smoking section."