From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 22 18:24:27 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 0EC9014ED0 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:24:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@trooper.velocet.net) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by trooper.velocet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA06557; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:24:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14393.64199.189042.641286@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:24:07 -0500 (EST) To: Julian Elischer Cc: David Gilbert , Josef Karthauser , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPPoE offer. In-Reply-To: <3839E2F5.2781E494@whistle.com> References: <14322.15597.505566.676863@trooper.velocet.ca> <19990929211210.H86792@florence.pavilion.net> <14322.30121.178080.621999@trooper.velocet.ca> <3839E2F5.2781E494@whistle.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Elischer writes: Julian> (the other end was a 486DX50 :-) with enough RAM we could Julian> probably serve 10K sessions, though that would require 10K ppp Julian> daemons until we got the kernel bypass working. in either Julian> case it would presently leave a HUGE ifconfig -a output as Julian> there would be 10000 intefeaces, each representing a channel Julian> to a client. It migh tbe worth wondering if we need to Julian> abstract a 'class of PVCs' type device that feeds to some othe Julian> rway of splitting them. (we can do this with netgraph pretty Julian> easily.) (is it worth doing?) I'd be willing to fund that experiment. It's possible we should meet either virtually or in person. 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