From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 19 18: 5:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-102.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675D5150F0; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 18:05:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (root@dev.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.5]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA23356; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:50:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dev.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA64332; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:50:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@dev.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199907192250.XAA64332@dev.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: obituary Cc: "Chris D. Faulhaber" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with cvsup In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:25:46 +1000." <3793356A.EDC63408@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:50:20 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > As I explained to DES, I used pppd because I assumed it would be more > efficient and I was already familiar with pppd configuration. [.....] Interestingly enough, it's exactly as efficient WRT packets being passed out & in to userland. In one instance, it's all done in ppp(8), and in the other, the ipfw code passes the stuff out to natd(8). Of course this doesn't take into account any dodgy coding in ppp(8) :-] > -jake (obituary) Powered by FreeBSD > c9710216@atlas.newcastle.edu.au http://www.freebsd.org -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message