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Subject: Re: PPTP/PPPoE mpd/poptop performance
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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,
>  
>