Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:23:44 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP -- which to use? Message-ID: <199901131823.SAA00585@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Jan 1999 19:48:35 %2B1000." <19990106094835.22382.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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> I'm new to FreeBSD and am about to setup a PPP link from a > FreeBSD LAN to my ISP. I've used other BSD implementations of > PPP (always in the kernel which is where I think it belongs), > but I note that FreeBSD-2.2.7 offers user level PPP as well as a > kernel implementation. I'd prefer to use the kernel variant, > but am interested to hear if there are any sound reasons why I > should consider the alternative. The big plus is that it does multilink. You can also control it from one or more diagnostic ports (or interactively) and it has extensive logging capabilities. There's an archive at http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html and another at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~brian with the latest up-to-the-minute sources which will build on any version of FreeBSD back as far as 2.0.5 AFAIK. ppp(8) lists its features right at the start. > -- > Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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