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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!van-bc!portal.ca!not-for-mail From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Getting PPP Links up and Running Date: 30 Dec 1995 14:31:43 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4c4ekf$75v@cynic.portal.ca> References: <4btgbk$plv@cynic.portal.ca> <4c4b7p$7u8_001@dialupS165.ici.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca In article <4c4b7p$7u8_001@dialupS165.ici.net>, David Ehrens <david@pencilnet.com> wrote: >Speaking of which... is NetBSD any less ugly than various Linux distributions >I've tried to get PPP to work? The fact that NetBSD is slightly more POSIX >compliant makes it more attractive in my mind. I'm not asking this to start a >religious debate; I just want to get PPP working reliably on a Unix platform >without discovering I have the wrong kernel, the wrong version, etc., etc. I can't speak for the Linix side of the PPP thing, but under NetBSD 1.1 it works pretty well. You do have to recompile your kernel, since the default generic kernel doesn't seem to include PPP (at least on the i386), but assuming you can find the disk space for long enough to compile it, I don't think that's a big deal. The only real complaint I have is that pppd is not really suited to keeping a connection up permanently by redialing whenever it goes down (or I missed something somewhere). I've currently got a sort of belt-and-suspenders system that starts a new pppd after a short delay as as the disconnect script, and a shell script that keeps an eye out and restarts the daemon when that reconnect fails, as it does often. cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.