Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:09:43 -0700 (PDT) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mik2o@telia.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: What kind of PPP connection do you have? Message-ID: <20020918190729.Q306-100000@atlas.home> In-Reply-To: <20020914050638.GB2474@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> I'm currently revising my book "The Complete FreeBSD". The new
> edition should be out in the bookstores in a couple of months. Right
> now I'm revising the chapter on PPP setup, which was written in 1997.
> Since then, the ISP landscape has changed dramatically, and I suspect
> that large parts of the chapter are no longer relevant. I'd like your
> feedback on the following issues:
>
> 1. What kind of authentication do you use? Please don't reply if
> it's PAP or CHAP; I think that's almost universal. I'm just
> interested if anybody is using anything else (like a UNIX login,
> for example).
Haven't used a login chat script with ppp for at least five years... :)
> 2. Do you use user PPP or kernel PPP? I'd like answers in each case
> here, please. I note that other books have decided to describe
> only one or the other, but currently I think there's a reason for
> both.
User PPP. Hmm... can kernel PPP do PPPoE?
/Mikko
Mikko Työläjärvi____________________________________________mik2o@telia.com
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