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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.
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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.
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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...
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