From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 4 5:19: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from trooper.velocet.net (trooper.velocet.net [216.126.82.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5EA14DA4 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 05:18:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@trooper.velocet.net) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by trooper.velocet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA68343; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 08:18:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14328.39710.398385.552396@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 08:18:38 -0400 (EDT) To: Julian Elischer Cc: Brian Somers , Wes Peters , David Gilbert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PPPoE offer. In-Reply-To: References: <199910040621.HAA00486@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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