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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.seanet.com!news.seanet.com!michaelv From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP and SLIP: ISP Quality? Date: 28 Jan 1996 08:30:52 GMT Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes. Lines: 50 Message-ID: <MICHAELV.96Jan28003053@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> References: <4eevr4$7no@news.voicenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mindbender.seanet.com In-reply-to: 5150's message of Sun, 28 Jan 1996 08:02:03 GMT In article <4eevr4$7no@news.voicenet.com> 5150 (5150) writes: people seem to be reporting lots of problems with PPP in FreeBSD. I haven't heard of too many problems that are anything other than people dealing with the complexity of it and trying to get their modems to work right. my question is whether or not the current implemenations are of suitable quality for running an ISP (or remote dialup access to a LAN). My personal PPP (on NetBSD -- but they're almost identical) works just great for my use. If you're going to run a true ISP with a decent number of users, you won't be running PPP/SLIP off a unix box, anyway -- you'll get a hardware dedicated terminal server (at least if you want to do it successfully). For a very small login server, I think it would work fine. If there is some PPP-related bug specifically in FreeBSD causing problems that I'm not aware of, you could also switch over to NetBSD temporarily (or permanently) until they get it ironed out. However, as far as I know, the implementation of PPP between the two OS' is from almost the same code base, so I would think it would do a decent job. My experience is that it works well. Just make sure you get decent modems if you're serious about this -- don't go with the cheapest junk you can buy. are the Linux versions any better? Not that I've heard. And (in spite of what some Linux zealots claim), Linux networking in general still has a long way to go to match *BSD quality. i like FreeBSD a lot, but this is one area that seems to get a lot of bad press. I'm not sure where you're seeing all this "bad press". Sure, I see a fair number of user problems, but maybe I'm not reading the right newsgroups. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4, DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532 NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -