From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 4 14:55:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA08631 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:55:58 -0800 Received: from unix.stylo.it (ppp.stylo.italia.com [194.20.23.167]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA07898 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:46:25 -0800 Received: from trust.stylo.it (trust.stylo.it [194.20.21.30]) by unix.stylo.it (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA00190 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 23:40:37 +0100 Received: by trust.stylo.it with NT SMTP Gateway ver 31 id <30C378D2@trust.stylo.it>; Mon, 04 Dec 95 23:40:18 W From: Angelo Turetta To: freebsd-hackers Subject: User space PPP & leased line Date: Mon, 04 Dec 95 23:42:00 W Message-ID: <30C378D2@trust.stylo.it> Encoding: 24 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Does anybody know what the ppp command line switch '-dedicated' is intended for ? Is it linked some way to operations with leased lines ? Well, maybe my TRUE question is: I'm going to get a V34 leased line between my office and my ISP, 'upgrading' a V34 dial-up access that is now driven by ppp: how can I configure ppp to operate on the new line ? Or, should I better run some other program (i.e. pppd) ? BTW, is there any {performance|machine load|memory usage} gain using one or the other of the two ppp daemons ? I know this should be a -questions posting, but two previous messages remained unanswered there for more than 2-3 weeks, so... :-( Please Cc: replies directly to me: I'm not on 'hackers' (I've hardly enough time to read '-digest' once or twice a week....:-( Thanks in advance. Angelo Turetta SysAdmin - Stylo Multimedia