From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 15:24:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD66B37B539 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13Bldq-000MOu-00; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:03:06 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13Bldq-000Azf-00; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:03:06 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:03:06 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Is kernel ppp better than user ppp? Message-ID: <20000710230306.I94380@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000709211409.A37847@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yzvKDKJiLNESc64M" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000709211409.A37847@localhost.localdomain> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --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