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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 1999 04:53:34 +1000
From:      obituary <c9710216@atlas.newcastle.edu.au>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with cvsup
Message-ID:  <3793742E.E0725B51@atlas.newcastle.edu.au>
References:  <3791BFE4.D18901D3@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> <xzp3dymnm2b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <37931C99.7038563D@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> <xzpiu7gn6yd.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3793339D.297B21F3@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> <xzp7lnwn1dz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Yes, in some cases you may save up to 1% CPU power using kernel PPP.
> On the other hand, userland PPP is actively maintained, whereas
> nobody's touched kernel PPP for over a year except to keep it in sync
> with architectural changes in the kernel.
> 
> Userland PPP has builtin NAT based on libalias (which does all kinds
> of magic to make active FTP and the like work across NAT). It also has
> a much nicer configuration syntax (though that may be a matter of
> personal preference).

You've sold me!  My family refuse to use anything but M$ Internet
Explorer for their web/ftp needs, and the damn thing doesn't support
passive mode FTP (neither does their DOS based client for that matter). 
I had to add a rule to specifically allow TCP traffic on port 20...

Thanks for the info.


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