On Sun, 13 July 1997, Shaleh wrote:
> What are Debian's pro's and con's? How hard is its PPP setup and how
> stable are its PPP connections. I will be using my box to dial an ISP
> and do school work.
Well, here is my 2 cents :
Pros:
Large, competent volunteer development staff
Automated installation and upgrade over ftp using dpkg and dselect
Timely, friendly, competent help with problems via this list
There is a Debian package for almost anything you could want
Cons: None not shared by any other Linux distribution, or any other
large software project of any type, for that matter.
PPP stability: I lose link maybe once every two months. I know for sure
that some of that is attributable to my isp (university). Other times
might be phone lines.
PPP setup: Pretty easy. If you have a working ppp options file and
chatscript, just stick them in. No kernel recompiles, ect like in the old
days. For a new setup, just edit the /etc/ppp.options_out and the
/etc/ppp.chatscript files. Bring the link up and down by running the pon
and poff commands (shell scripts) as root. Debug your chatscript by
looking in /usr/adm/syslog. If you have a PnP modem, you may need to set
up your modem using the isapnptools package.
Mike
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