From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 18:30:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A60E37BB5D for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:30:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cgotzmann@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.64.17.129]) by mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <20000413013024.LDQP2627.mail.rdc1.ab.home.com@home.com> for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:30:24 -0700 Message-ID: <38F4F8E1.95959060@home.com> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:29:53 +0000 From: cag Reply-To: cgotzmann@home.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: PPOE Docs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have study your docs about PPPOE and I have not yet got a good understanding of how this would be used or why. What the difference between PPP and PPPOE. PPP over TCP is to slow so I thought I would look at PPPOE. Here's what I understand. PPPOED would be used at the server to listen for PPP connections . What TCP /UDP port does it listen on ? Next how would you use the client / user side. All the doc's that show config samples for ppp.conf do not indicate how the client / user connects to the remote server. what host name IP address etc. What I am trying to do is create a IP tunnel between to FREEBSD gateways. Using PPP over TCP is to slow compared to the same connection not using PPP. I get about 1/10th the throughput using ppp compared to a straight ethernet connection over the same link. Thanks if you can clear this up for me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message