From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 31 9:13:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0727637B401 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.cc [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83AFA43E42 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:13:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.cc) Received: from madman.nectar.cc (madman.nectar.cc [10.0.1.111]) by gw.nectar.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061AE3C; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:13:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from madman.nectar.cc (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by madman.nectar.cc (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6VGDRU4083220; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:13:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@madman.nectar.cc) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by madman.nectar.cc (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6VGDQVf083076; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:13:26 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:13:26 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Brad Brad Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/sbin/ppp and /usr/sbin/pppd Message-ID: <20020731161326.GB5957@madman.nectar.cc> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Brad Brad , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <3D48015F.4020602@brad-x.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D48015F.4020602@brad-x.com> X-Url: http://www.nectar.cc/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i-ja.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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