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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Kernel PPP v's User PPP on 386 as router Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:09:39 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3294A8F3.60F9@www.play-hookey.com> References: <nigel.19.0000A45F@znet.net.au> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Nigel Gorry wrote: > > I have a 386DX-40 that I'm using as a router between my Ethernet LAN and a PPP > connection to the Internet. > > I was wondering which PPP implementation (kernel or user) would be more > efficient in this situation. The PPP link is permanent, with fixed IP address. > > The 386 is also used as a mail server and DNS server for the internal LAN. > I use pppd for my full-time connection. It works fine for me. I was never able to get iijppp to cleanly dial my ISP and then keep the connection. (I'm sure there's a way, somehow, but pppd was easier for me to set up and tweak.) -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |