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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!news1.vancouver.istar.net!news.vancouver.istar.net!van-bc!news.rmii.com!newsjunkie.ans.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!hboix1.enet.dec.com!lars From: lars@hboix1.enet.dec.com (Lars Hofhansl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP and SLIP: ISP Quality? Date: 29 Jan 1996 16:49:22 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment GmbH Hamburg Lines: 37 Sender: lars@hboix1 (Lars Hofhansl) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4eitqi$sec@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <4eevr4$7no@news.voicenet.com> Reply-To: lars@hboix1.enet.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 16.185.176.30 In article <4eevr4$7no@news.voicenet.com>, 5150 (5150) writes: > >people seem to be reporting lots of problems with PPP in FreeBSD. > >my question is whether or not the current implemenations are of >suitable quality for running an ISP (or remote dialup access to a >LAN). > >are the Linux versions any better? > >i like FreeBSD a lot, but this is one area that seems to get a lot of >bad press. > >any comments? thanks! > >nunzio > The problems seem more or less be related to user mode ppp (tun). If reliability is a major objective, kernel-ppp (pppd) is definately the better choice. I had NO problems in setting up pppd, it simply worked from scratch! (the man page is quite longish, but it tells you all you need to know) I didn't try user-ppp, though. As far as I can judge (and I'm no ISP) FreeBSD is suitable for that job ! Before I came to FreeBSD I used RedHat-Linux 2.0 for about four months; I could sense no real differences concerning pppd, although FreeBSD stays more responsive even during times of heavy load. If you have FreeBSD installed use FreeBSD, if you have Linux installed use Linux. Personally I'd suggest a terminalserver, but that is another story. Lars