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From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pppd vs user PPP
Date: 18 Jan 1996 00:43:11 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
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Message-ID: <4dk52v$4ik@parody.tecc.co.uk>
References: <mitch4DLA4FI.Ju3@netcom.com>
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In article <mitch4DLA4FI.Ju3@netcom.com>,
mitch goldstrom <mitch4@netcom.com> wrote:
>Is there an advantage to using user ppp over pppd?

There's been quite a flamewar on this subject on the -hackers mailing list.
Such substantive points as I have managed to glean are as follows:-

1. pppd is generally more reliable than ppp, particularly if used for
   long periods of time.
2. ppp is easier to configure and setup than pppd.
3. ppp has a compression facility that is not present in pppd. Whether
   this offers any performance advantages when the modem has hardware 
   compression is a moot point.
4. pppd is implemented in the kernel, ppp in user space. From an
   architectural and aesthetic point of view, a lot of the stuff pppd
   does shouldn't really be done in the kernel.

>I can get pppd to come up (so far), but I still
>have not gotten user ppp to ocme up on it's own.

Unless you're really unhappy with pppd and are convinced that ppp will
solve all your problems, I wouldn't bother changing something that works.

For what it's worth, I used pppd before ppp became available and I 
couldn't be bothered writing, and more importantly testing, a load of 
new scripts, so I'm still using it now.

James
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