Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 08:18:38 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PPPoE offer. Message-ID: <14328.39710.398385.552396@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910032348050.47259-100000@home.elischer.org> References: <199910040621.HAA00486@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910032348050.47259-100000@home.elischer.org>
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[on PPPoE] Well... a few toronto people and I got together (I'm trying to find email addresses) to discuss the problem. One particular thought that we had was that it would be cool if a single ppp process could handle a large number of connections. We also discussed the fact that you may very well want some low-level routing of the PPPoE packets. The cost model with our telco (at least) is that each ethernet connection costs $1500/mo. So... we need to be able to run somewhere around 5K to 10K connections (users) down each pipe. This means that a box on the front end to "route" the packets to multiple boxes is an asset. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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