Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:13:26 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org> To: Brad Brad <brad@brad-x.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/sbin/ppp and /usr/sbin/pppd Message-ID: <20020731161326.GB5957@madman.nectar.cc> In-Reply-To: <3D48015F.4020602@brad-x.com> References: <3D48015F.4020602@brad-x.com>
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:25:19AM -0400, Brad Brad wrote: > Question about these. > > These two seem to serve the same purpose. /usr/sbin/ppp seems to be the > more advanced and secure of the two, especially in light of the security > advisory (02:32) regarding /usr/sbin/pppd. > > Do we need to keep it? yes, each ppp implementation has its pluses and minuses. pppd, for its part, is standard around BSD and many Linux distributions, and it is efficient as most packet processing occurs in the kernel. cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc> http://www.nectar.cc/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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