Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:38:09 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts Message-ID: <19981006083809.00946@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <19981006155341.C27781@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 03:53:41PM %2B0930 References: <19981006071237.02443@follo.net> <19981006155341.C27781@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 03:53:41PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 October 1998 at 7:12:38 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > Dos and Don'ts of FreeBSD > > ------------------------- > > > > DON'T run pppd unless you either > > (a) already have a working setup, or > > (b) absolutely need the 2% reduction of CPU usage it will give > > you. > > Why this? With all respect for Brian, I've found pppd to be more > reliable. Because it often lead to a large amount of pain (in setup), especially when somebody get the idea that they want to use NAT. In the cases where there are problems with iij-ppp, my impression is it usually get fixed pretty quickly (personally, I've never had a problem except when I've been hacking the code myself, so I can't give more than a second-hand impression). > > DON'T send questions to anything but questions@freebsd.org, except: > > * Multimedia questions (TV-cards, sound cards, qcam, and > > similar) can go to multimedia@freebsd.org. > > * Questions directly related to the FreeBSD code (ie, not > > functionality) can be sent to hackers@freebsd.org > > * Questions about ISDN can be sent to isdn@freebsd.org > > Questions from newbies can go to -newbies if they meet Aunty Sue's > criteria. Then Aunty Sue had better come up with a suitable description ;-) > > DON'T send questions about anything (beyond the exceptions noted > > above) to any mailing list you are not a member of and have > > read for at least two days. > > This sounds funny, like you want them to be a member and not have read > it for two days. Is this better? DON'T send questions about anything (beyond the exceptions noted above) to any mailing list you have not read at least two days of traffic from. Yes, this implies you should be or have been a member. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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