From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 19 11:57:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fep8.mail.ozemail.net (fep8.mail.ozemail.net [203.2.192.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F7214F38; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:57:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c9710216@atlas.newcastle.edu.au) Received: from atlas.newcastle.edu.au (slnew55p58.ozemail.com.au [203.108.151.136]) by fep8.mail.ozemail.net (8.9.0/8.6.12) with ESMTP id EAA08452; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 04:56:21 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3793742E.E0725B51@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 04:53:34 +1000 From: obituary X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with cvsup References: <3791BFE4.D18901D3@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> <37931C99.7038563D@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> <3793339D.297B21F3@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Yes, in some cases you may save up to 1% CPU power using kernel PPP. > On the other hand, userland PPP is actively maintained, whereas > nobody's touched kernel PPP for over a year except to keep it in sync > with architectural changes in the kernel. > > Userland PPP has builtin NAT based on libalias (which does all kinds > of magic to make active FTP and the like work across NAT). It also has > a much nicer configuration syntax (though that may be a matter of > personal preference). You've sold me! My family refuse to use anything but M$ Internet Explorer for their web/ftp needs, and the damn thing doesn't support passive mode FTP (neither does their DOS based client for that matter). I had to add a rule to specifically allow TCP traffic on port 20... Thanks for the info. -jake (obituary) Powered by FreeBSD c9710216@atlas.newcastle.edu.au http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message