Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 03:02:36 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: efinley@castlenet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Q: which ppp to use? Message-ID: <199801110302.DAA20646@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:33:11 GMT." <34b8cbd5.968492@mail.cetlink.net>
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> On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:51:56 GMT, efinley@castlenet.com (Elliot > Finley) wrote: > > >If I plan on having up to 200 simultaneous ppp dialins on a single > >box, which ppp would be better? pppd or user ppp? > > Neither one, because that airplane will not fly. > > 32 ports per box, or perhaps 64 with the right stuff, hardware wise. > You will need more than one box. I load-test ppp by running it over loopback connections via inetd (for example when I was testing the dynamic IP assignments). I was aware of a rather strange limit on 100 ppp processes ! I've now found that the problem is that the ppp code is assuming an interface name to be up to 5 characters *blush*. I've just fixed this (in -current), but I can't currently build the archive on http://www.FreeBSD.org/~brian 'cos of recent libalias problems :-( It'll be in the next (post 980108) version. Having said all that, I've never actually used these 100 connections all at the same time. I may try soon :-) > John -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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