Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:00:21 -0500 From: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> To: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd Message-ID: <1171213221.1487.46.camel@dagobah.vindaloo.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200702111702.l1BH2bYY001943@dagobah.vindaloo.com> In-Reply-To: <200702100306.38076.lofi@freebsd.org> References: <45CBA137.7050701@isp.com> <20070209081333.GA834@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <45CCEC2A.7070800@isp.com> <200702100306.38076.lofi@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 03:06 +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: [ snip ] > All that your "bug report" accomplishes is broadcasting your bad and > uninformed attitude to an even bigger audience. It is in your own and the > FreeBSD community's best interest to backtrack before anyone gets to form a > negative opinion on both. I just took a look at the list of bugs in pppd. Aside from being unmaintained it looks as though the functionality is still okay. This is borne out my experience using pppd with my wireless modem. Just last night on a trip from JFK in fact. Opinion is getting more important with the market arrival of affordable EVDO coverage and cards. EVDO is a wireless technology for connecting to the net. The connection speeds are between 700 ~ 3000 kb/s I nearly passed on the opportunity to get one card due to reports that FreeBSD 6.1 and 6.2 had rendered kernel ppp unusable. In the current generation these cards are very fast serial modems that connect to the USB bus. They configure exactly like a serial connected modem and ppp stack. They are primarily configured for windows but configurations for kernel pppd primarily for Linux and Mac OSX are readily available on the Internet. The argument for EVDO cards also holds for bluetooth enabled phones. With Verizon and Sprint allowing you to use the bluetooth stack in your phone to connect to the Internet at EVDO speeds for a nominal fee, we should expect more people and try to use FreeBSD in this manner. When they do they will com from Linux with a kernel pppd configuration. -- Chris
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