On 22:15 Fri 01 Sep     , Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 22:06:05 -0400, "matthew sporleder"
> <msporleder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > userppp:
> > >     This is really the ifconfig and dhclient of the dialup/pppoe world.
> > >     The first and most basic task in setting up a NetBSD box is to get
> > >     it connected to the Internet. This package makes it possible and
> > >     fast not matter what means are available.
> > 
> What's wrong with the kernel ppp?  No pppoe? 

Could be a lack of intelligence on my part, but I always fight to get it
to work and find tracing problems or adjusting parameters to be hard.
Before userppp came along getting connected to dialup and DSL easily
became a 20, 30, or 40 minute exercise.

Eric