Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:03:06 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is kernel ppp better than user ppp? Message-ID: <20000710230306.I94380@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000709211409.A37847@localhost.localdomain> References: <20000709211409.A37847@localhost.localdomain>
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--yzvKDKJiLNESc64M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David J. Kanter wrote: > I have both working, but it one generally considered better than the othe= r? user ppp: maintained, easy to configure, very featureful, built-in NAT. kernel ppp: should be taken out and shot. > Since both work I'm not interested in debugging, which apparently user ppp > has the upper hand. >=20 > But is one more efficient than the other? Does one have better thoroughpu= t? The difference is likely to be very low. Given that you're probably using it over a modem with a maximum throughput of 56Kbps, the bottleneck is going to be the modem, not the performance of the PPP software used, I would think. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D --yzvKDKJiLNESc64M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: dmW1APPUft4Izcg8o0CA1N2NOSz0EpzX iQCVAwUBOWpIGSsPVtiZOS99AQGJtQP/R8pu8riP4JCu280ED7pEssFYYkxLds8V HaHPHyBzK+5N/kkAjTLs7QxXgn+iOawHN4WyL2+UvT2SMCWabnFBdAhKO2li2jdI uYG5JIoWjFZZlMgbMP6BtdSVinJ4uypAnQhpOkumZJGPIsPq1E2sCUTTgu2YA6tJ 2HlK7oYGTL0= =Jb8b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yzvKDKJiLNESc64M-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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