Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:29:25 +0300 From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> To: Pawel Malachowski <pawmal-posting@freebsd.lublin.pl> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPTP/PPPoE mpd/poptop performance Message-ID: <417E7B65.3050607@he.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <20041026153108.GA91134@shellma.zin.lublin.pl> References: <20041026153108.GA91134@shellma.zin.lublin.pl>
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Pawel Malachowski wrote: >Hello, > >I would like to ask people using mpd about performance on particular hardware >setups. I am interested in the numbers of sessions (probably PPTP with weak >encryption) and total bandwith, that can be achieved with, e.g.: >. 300MHz CPU, >. 1GHz CPU, >. 2GHz CPU. > > Although I'm not expert on mpd, I couldn't resist mentioning that not all MHz are created equal and you probably achieve more performance difference by carefully choosing a well performing NIC than the absolute MHz on the box. Pete >Won't PPPoE behave better than PPTP? (My goals are authentication and >performace.) >I guess poptop will be much slower and is not a good solution for bigger >setup (since it works entirely in userland)? >I'm talking about small ISP environment, about 100-200 simultaneous >connections over LAN, about 5-10Mbit/s total bandwith. > > >TIA, > >
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