[LUG] Kppp and pppd - differences?

[John Horne <J.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Morning all,

I received instructions for my new ISP account on Friday, so over the
weekend I started to set it up and try and use it. The downside was that my
usual method of using pppd scripts didn't work. I got a connection, a
response indicating the speed/protocols, and then gibberish (it appears in
the /var/log/messages file) - as expected from a modem but what is usually
interpreted by pppd.

After trying several changes I still had no luck. I tried minicom and got
the same. I thought I'd try kppp, which I haven't used for a long time now.
To my surprise it worked first time! I put in kppp all the options I use
with pppd - mainly removal of software compression - and it has worked fine
all weekend.

What I cannot work out is what is different between kppp and pppd. I'm using
the same options for both, and as far as I am aware kppp is basically a gui
front-end to pppd, so I would expect very minor differences.

Any ideas anyone? As said I have kppp so basically I am happy; more curious
than anything.


Thanks,

John.

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John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK           Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914
E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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