From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jul 2 22:12: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241E137B410 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 22:12:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjf@samurai.com) Received: from [192.168.1.34] ([65.92.109.138]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010703051204.KCFI15384.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@[192.168.1.34]>; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 01:12:04 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bjf@mail.samurai.com (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010702235434.B84523@sneakerz.org> References: <20010702233606.A84523@sneakerz.org> <20010702235434.B84523@sneakerz.org> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 01:11:49 -0400 To: Alfred Perlstein From: Bryan Fullerton Subject: Re: PPPoE latency Cc: net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:54 PM -0500 7/2/01, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > If you really think switching to a better ethernet card will help, I > > have a 3C905B sitting here that I can try. > >It may. Ok, I'll try that tomorrow then. Perhaps the varying cruft levels in ed(4) vs xl(4), or ISA vs PCI architecture, will help. :) > > Nope, ppp -nat, no natd. > >Same difference, ppp is implemented as a userland process, nearly the >same amount of work must be done for either natd or ppp. Well, I certainly can't get around needing NAT. Would it really add that much overhead in processing? I only have three active machines on the private network, though I do have 10 port forwarding rules as well. ppp is a busy little process on this machine, but it's not eating that much CPU percentage wise (maybe 5-10% during peak bandwidth usage). root 115 0.0 0.9 2524 544 ?? Ss 24Jun01 228:03.06 /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -background -nat hse I do download a bit. :) 03000 55837770 52756978271 allow tcp from any to any established Bryan -- Bryan Fullerton http://bryanfullerton.com/ Core Competence uunet.ca!gts!cspace!bjf Samurai Consulting Can you feel the Ohmu call? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message