From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 22 18:25:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-49.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2796A14F6D for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:25:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA03720; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 02:25:03 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA08646; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 02:29:10 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199911230229.CAA08646@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Julian Elischer Cc: David Gilbert , Josef Karthauser , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: PPPoE offer. In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer of "Mon, 22 Nov 1999 16:42:29 PST." <3839E2F5.2781E494@whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 02:29:10 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > We also have patches in the works to allow full kernel bypass of > the ppp daemon in the common case, resulting in Mucho performance > increase. > > with the version we have now, a 100KB/sec ppp session took 6% of a > P6-200 [.....] CCP will kill performance. Without it however, I've squeezed 1.5Mb per second (AFAIR using ppp/udp on a Mobile PII/366) out of ppp(8). We're still on the right side of the line for regular users, but not by a great deal these days :-/ > Julian -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message